Are weblogs wrecking Google?

Here's the problem: some people have noticed that, for certain kinds of Google search the top references dug up by Google often come from weblogs. "Gah!" cry the searchers. "Those bloody weblogs are clogging up Google!" Among those who consider weblogs to be a mindless recycling of links and idle chatter by a vanishingly small number of net users, this is seen as a Bad Thing.

One of the key issues, as expressed succintly by Dave Winer is:

If you want to be in Google, you gotta be on the Web. It's pretty simple.

Most weblog entries are right out there for everyone to see. Many newspapers, put their older articles in archives (some for pay, some not) which are not available to search engines. Search engines search what they can see. And what they can see includes a lot of blogs.

So, are weblogs wrecking Google? The better question is, when you do a search, do you find the information you need?

...via Scripting News