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The Register reports that Google is to develop a search engine specifically for Weblogs in order to reduce the 'noise' they create when included in the normal search.

The report notes:

"The main problem with blogs is that, as far as Google is concerned, they masquerade as useful information when all they contain is idle chatter," wrote Roddy. "And through some fluke of their evil software, they seem to get indexed really fast, so when a major political or social event happens, Google is noised to the brim with blogs and you have to start at result number 40 or so before you get past the blogs."

Perhaps both Webloggers and others will welcome the move, since it will provide a focused search for the former and reduce that noise for the latter. This happened when Google acquired the Usenet groups and provided a separate search process, so why not with Weblogs?