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Sat, 04 Jun 2005 06:59:44 +0000

[...] estion: Does Google punish its critics? Long term readers may recall that The Blog Herald was dupmed from Google News. As I’ve [...]

By: BloggersBlog.com

BloggersBlog.com — Mon, 02 May 2005 09:09:33 +0000

Blogs Being Dropped From Google News

We frown on the idea that blogs cannot be considered as news sources — especially one like the Blog Herald which consistently reports on blog-related news stories. Even newspapers run opinion pieces and non news items. Is Google going to remove these …

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TurboBlogger.com » Google News Dumps Blog Herald — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:02:22 +0000

[...] particular, the occasional posts of advice, tips and how-toâ€™s in relation to blogging. Duncan is a little miffed at the Googleplex [...]

By: Mangas Verdes » The Blog Herald, expulsado de Google News

Mangas Verdes » The Blog Herald, expulsado de Google News — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:07:23 +0000

[...] noticias del popular buscador. Así lo ha comunicado hoy Duncan Riley, editor de la página, a través de un post: “Per [...]

By: site admin

site admin — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:36:39 +0000

Interesting John that I’m not alone here and others have had to consider their future directions. I suppose I do my best work (and sometimes my worse to) when I’m not being constrained by what I believe that corporate entities may find acceptable or unacceptable, so I’m positive that the change, whilst a small loss of prestige, will overall be a positive one.

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:43:25 +0000

Totally agree with your policy. Readability is all in a text-based blog. A lot of other bloggers seem to be going through an introspective period just now, including Evhead and Blogspotting.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:03:16 +0000

Sorry to hear that. I like your attitude though.

Perhaps this will free you up just to be who you want to be, write what you want to write ….yeah…

Be free Duncan – give us all those tips you’ve been storing up and been unable to write for fear of not being seen as ‘news’.

hmmm – maybe Google should start a service called ‘Google Tips’….

hmmm – now thats not a bad idea – where do I see it to them?