BBC News reports that Yahoo is including blog entries with its news seaches:

The Yahoo search system is not about blurring the lines between professionally edited news and that from blogs.

Readers will initially be given links to the top 10 stories from mainstream news organisations, alongside links to relevant blog entries.

"We do try to demarcate what is mainstream media and what is user-generated content," said Mr Redfern.

Leading web firms are beginning to sit up and take notice of blogs. In September search engine Google unveiled its own blog search engine.

At the beginning of October, AOL agreed to buy leading web journal firm Weblogs Inc.

According to blog search and indexing site Technorati, there are more than 17 million weblogs currently available online.

...via Smart Mobs