Yahoo! Blog Search Puts News and Blogs on Equal Ground

Yahoo! Blog Search is now live. Go test it over here. What I love about the Yahoo! engine is that it's integrated with their news search. I also like how it includes Flickr and My Web results. That's a big endorsement for blogs. Yahoo is putting them on the same playing field. This means that millions of consumers are going to start dipping into blogs for news content - and then start adding these sites to their My Yahoo pages. (By the way, they're not the first to do this. Topix.net and Google News also include some blogs in their databases as well.) For further explanation, see the Yahoo! Search Blog. This is a watershed moment for citizen journalism. We're not the opening act anymore. We're now live on stage with the big boys. My only nit is that I wish it included more blogs. Blog results feel light to me compared to other blog-specific tools.

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