Yahoo! has just unveiled their new quasi blog search engine. I say "quasi" because, unlike Google’s blog search engine, their combines blogs and news on one page. News items show up center column and blog results are in a right-hand column sidebar, with the most recent posts being returned first (Technorati-style). The blog returns Flickr photos as well.
Blogspotting’s Stephen Baker makes a good point. He says, "[T]his is one more sign that the mainstream and bloggers are swimming in the same pool of data." The line between blogs and mainstream content is getting fuzzier.
Yahoo! is pulling content from the over 750,000 blogs in their MyYahoo! database, so it’s a good idea to get your blog indexed if it’s not already.
[Via Blogspotting]
I wonder if its supposed to compete with Google??
Comment by Kamyar Shahmohammadi — October 11, 2005 @ 2:32 pm
Hmmm…color me unimpressed. And not just because a search for “flyte” didn’t pull up one appropriate post I’ve ever done. (Although that didn’t help.)
It’s more the layout. Yes, I realize that this is the news search, but the blog search results look like an afterthought.
“Oh, Cinderella? Forget about her. Look at my two lovely daughters. I’m sure that slipper will fit on one of them.”
I like the idea of a news search that has a “buzz” column to see what bloggers are saying on a given topic, but the current layout puts the blog results where the Sponsor Results go on the typical Yahoo results.
Maybe it will be better when it gets out of beta….
Comment by Rich Brooks — October 12, 2005 @ 5:09 am