Google released their Google blog search tool last month. Businessweek reported that it returns too many spammy blogs and appears to be just another blog search engine. The challenge so far has been to sort out good quality blogs from the spammy ones.
Now, it’s Yahoo’s turn to have a crack at it. Yahoo’s blog search is different from Google’s in that it displays the blog results right beside traditional media news like press releases. According to Forbes:
[Yahoo] wants to fuse professional journalism with so-called citizen journalism to provide a fuller spectrum of content to its members. Still, Yahoo! is clearly sensitive to the dangers of blurring the lines between professional and amateur journalism.
Results from 6,500 of Yahoo!’s content partners (mainstream media) will be displayed on the left side of the page. On the right side, clearly demarcated, will be relevant blog-search results.