Information Research Weblog

The relationship between Weblogs and Google seems to be in the news again. The Register carries an article (again by Andrew Orlowski, who seems to have a thing about Weblogs) on the subject, claiming that searchers are fed up with links to Weblogs cluttering up their search results. I'm not sure about the circumstances under which this occurs, since I have yet to experience the phenomenon - probably means I'm just searching for serious, boring stuff rather than the latest gossip about Madonna or whoever...

The subject is also tackled in a recent article in The Observer. In it, John Naughton suggests that it is all a matter of the professional journalists envying the amateur and he points out that much of the stuff written by the professional hack is not available on the Web. His moral?

The moral is: if you want to score with Google, be on the web. Otherwise, go whistle.

That seems fair!