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[Think Web]

...We currently do not include news-related blogs...

Is Google guilty of cheapening the value of rss and blogging technology as a content delivery system?

Google News Refusing Blogs

[compar]

I don't find that very hard to understand. After all Blogs are usually one person opinions and do have any standards or editorial oversight for testing the validity of their claims or information. I would be skeptical of the average Blog as a source of reliable News.

I would imagine Google will still index Blogs, just not under the heading of News.

[Think Web]

Then maybe the same could be said of using FrontPage as a means to publish a website.

The way they worded the email, it sounds like they're drawing the line at a certain technology, rather than the content.

I've been across a few newspapers that use blogging as a means of updating portions of their news.

If there is a non-blog news site associated with this movement, we would be happy to review it.

They told him that they'd review it if he published it via "non-blog" means.

Edited by Think Web, 28 October 2003 - 12:26 PM.

[compar]

The way they worded the email, it sounds like they're drawing the line at a certain technology, rather than the content.

I've never had a really serious look at Blogging technology because I've never felt I had the time to maintain a Blog. So can you explain how from Google's point of view the technology is different than any other web site?

Maybe Google should start a category for Blogs.

I edited the comment about pages created in Frontpage from your remarks quoted above, but upon reflection I think Googles treatment of web pages -- no matter how they are authored -- supports my contention rather than contradicting it. With web pages Google goes to great lengths to try and assess the relevance of the content if not the veracity. But I assume with the News category no such effort is made. Therefore I think for them to report Blogs as news would be misleading.