Yahoo has quietly killed its blog search engine, according to one report. I took a quick look at the Yahoo News site and have confirmed they did indeed remove the blog results from the right hand side of the page that had been there until recently. Kevin Burton, however, notices that some larger blogs like Defamer and Huffington Post are still being indexed in the news results. However, most blogs including mine are gone.
To me this is a sure sign that Yahoo is gearing up to launch an integrated feed reader/search engine the way Ask.com/Bloglines did in June. This is the second piece of evidence in the puzzle. In July I noticed a referral link in my server logs from "reader.yrank.feeds.yahoo.com."
When the revamped News Search launched last October, the integration of blogs was much ballyhooed. I am sure Yahoo still believes in blog search, but they're probably getting ready to roll out a whole new platform.
