Google and Blogs controversy

A blogger's take on Blog Clog

[Clark]

Some WW members feel that blogs are peppering the google results and they hate it. Others feel blogs are peppering results and feel the pages are relevant and are happy about it. Some people just hate blogs. Others (like me), cannot even recall seeing a blog as a search result at all. And if I did, it wouldn't disturb me as long as it was relevant.

Here is a blogger's take on the issue:

[doc.weblogs.com...]

I have to agree that for current events, blogs provide "content" and commentary that isn't always easy to find elsewhere openly.

[Clark]

Here's another article about it [guardian.co.uk...]

Edited for P.S. Oops, just remembered that I have to be careful about links on WW. If there's a problem with those links, you can kill this thread, mods. Thanks!

[Clark]

Just ran into another blog on this. Lots of talk about this (as bloggers tend to look up daypop and talk a lot about the same thing). Rather than link to that blog I'll just mention that this blogger said that the NYtimes set their robots.txt to not allow indexing their site. Interesting tidbit. For the original source, look up daypop...

[GoogleGuy]

Here's my favorite take on it:
[davenet.userland.com...]

I don't always agree 100% with Dave, but he nailed the main point: "if you want to be in Google you gotta be on the web." The NYT stories now require money to access, and Googlebot doesn't have any moolah. I wish people had noticed that earlier. :)