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I found blog entires from Blogger in the results of a Google News search. I hadn’t noticed them there before. The thought of thousands of Blogger blogs potentially showing up in my search for news frustrates me. Yes, weblogs contain news. However, when I use a news search engine, I am searching for material from–oh, how can I say this without sparking a debate about whether weblogs count as journalism?–legitimate, official news organizations, like newspapers, broadcast news sources, magazines, etc. I don’t want it to tell me that NewsliBlog is a source of news just like National Public Radio or The Miami Herald are.

I subscribed to Yahoo! News’ alert service using the same searches a few weeks ago. I usually receive alerts from Google before I get the alerts for the same articles from Yahoo! and Google seems to contain more news sources, but Yahoo! hasn’t sent me something I don’t consider to be a news source yet.

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