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This Associated Press article discusses Yahoo!’s inclusion of weblogs in their news site. Results come from about 6500 selected blogs and are displayed in a box on the right separating them from results from media outlets.

The article claims Google News doesn’t include blogs. I used to receive results from blogs when I used that search engine. I stopped using it regularly a few months ago, so I haven’t kept up with what they’re doing with blogs. Does someone know if they dropped blogs from their engine?

There’s also a flickr photo stream and ways to search subscription-required sources.

Of course, we all want to know who the 6500 chosen ones are. I noticed some familiar faces: Scripting News and Off on a Tangent.

There are links to add the feed to My Yahoo!, which offers an aggregator as part of its portal, RSS, and My Web. I wonder if they’re using RSS generically or if the text changes for sites only offering Atom feeds, like many of those hosted on Blogger.

Thanks, Garrett.

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