Yahoo adds blogs to its news section

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BostonHerald.com – Technology News

     Yahoo Inc.’s online news search tool on Monday added Internet journal entries as a supplement to professional media offerings – an experiment that figures to test the public’s appetite for information from alternative sources.

     Under Yahoo’s new approach, a keyword search for online news will include a list of relevant Web logs, or “blogs,” displayed in a box to the right of the results collected from mainstream journalism.

     Yahoo’s inclusion of blogs in its news section represents another validation for a growing group of people that are bypassing newspapers, magazines and broadcast outlets to report and comment on topical events.

     Although many top bloggers lack formal journalism training, it hasn’t stopped them from building loyal readerships or breaking news that the mainstream media either missed or ignored.

     Those scoops have helped rally more support for “citizen journalism” – a cause that Yahoo wanted to recognize by spotlighting some of the news appearing in blogs.

This entry was posted on October 12, 2005 at 8:38 pm and is filed under Resources. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

One Response to Yahoo adds blogs to its news section

  1. Helen on October 12, 2005 at 8:40 pm

    Also from the article:

    Google Inc., which runs the Internet’s leading search engine, so far has treated blogs differently. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company last month introduced a specialty search engine that does nothing but sift through blogs. Meanwhile, Google’s news section continues to focus on material from mainstream media.

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