http://eyedropper.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/amusing_results.html

Although my site (which is only a few months old) is posted with blog software, the content is made up of completely original items that certainly seem to be just as relevant as many items found on other (non-blog) websites that get properly crawled by Yahoo. I’m a professional journalist and writer (under a different name), and I’m trying to hold my new blog to the same standards expected when I’m writing paid material for mainstream publications — so to have my articles ignored by Yahoo is troublesome, especially if it’s simply because of the blog format.

It’s also not good for people doing Yahoo searches, because they end up getting a search result that leads to an index page where the article they’re looking for may no longer be appearing…. and my blog’s subhead dominates the search-result’s description instead of the more relevant info that could be found in the article’s title or body text.

I know that the search industry is trying to avoid having personal-journal type blogs and link-list blogs appearing above more relevant results, but not all blogs should be treated in this way. Content relevance, not format/software/domain/meta-tags, should be the key to delivering search results, even if the other elements are weighed into the final ranking. Microsoft’s Search, admittedly, is logging my site in the same way as Yahoo. Only Google (and sites using Google results, such as AOL) is correctly returning individual pages from my site. Not coincidentally, I receive much more traffic from Google-powered search engines than I do from Yahoo or MS; and people finding my site through Google seem much more likely to stay on my site for a while, instead of leaving after a single page view. Try searching for “celebritycola.blogspot.com” to see what I mean.

My other theory is that MS and Yahoo may be avoiding Blogspot websites because Google now owns that company. I look forward to any ideas people might have regarding this.