Yahoo! News Search Blogs

Filed in: Yahoo! — October 13th, 2005

Yahoo! News search now includes blog results.

Yahoo! News search include blog results in the sidebar

Today we’ve begun the integration of blogs in Yahoo! News Search. Now when you search on Yahoo! News you will see blog results as well as content from thousands of trusted news sites. The experiences and opinions published on blogs make a great addition to the mainstream news people read everyday. And major world events are further fueling the growth of blogs as platforms for anyone who wants to have a public voice. At times, even everyday bloggers beat the mainstream media to a story.

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My two cents

Does it means that blogging about current affairs will get better exposure?

The blog result sidebar replace “sponsor results” (read: Yahoo! text ads). If you are writing about “hot” news, you are competing with many other bloggers for the FOUR link space. Plus, if I am regular Yahoo! user, I probably skip the sidebar (ads blind).