Is every blogger account a web log?

Google CEO Eric Schmidt's announcement that they will soon offer a service for searching Web logs, but what wasn't clear was whether weblogs would be removed from the main search results, but precedent, i.e. Usenet groups, suggests they will be.

I agree with Tom; I'm not certain how I would feel about it if Google were to exclude weblog results entirely from the main search engine. How will they define the term blog or web log? Will it include every web page generated by Blogger?

TechLawAdvisor is a blog (a web site maintained with a certain content management system and displaying other particularities). I could maintain it using blogger, but what about the fact that I use Blogger Pro to publish additional commercial oriented pages that I host myself. I use Blogger to blog, but also as a content management system and not as a blog publisher as do many other weblogs who are more likely to use movable type or pmachines etc. and I have in fact paid Pyra for this very reason:

Commercial Usage. Blogger has always been free to whoever wants to use it—personal publishers and corporate entities alike. We're glad to have companies use Blogger for commercial purposes. But now that we have a non-free option, we're going to require that commercial-oriented users help support Blogger for everyone. So, if you use Blogger for a purpose that serves an organization with a budget, upgrade now.

Will Google make a distinction between commercial sites that use blogger for content management and those that use it to publish blogs? How would commercial publishers react to those sites being de-indexed?

Update: Ev Responds to Google to fix blog noise problem

Register to fix Orlowski noise problem
Andrew Orlowski strikes with another brilliant theory designed to get attention from bloggers (even though the number of their readers is of course "statistically insignificant"). Well shit, I'm biting.

Based on Eric Schmidt's mentioning of a blog search, Orlowski suggests that Google will remove blogs from the main index.

This shouldn't surprise many people, but as far as I know, Orlowski is full of crap. Again. If Google didn't find that blogs improved the results (and I don't know, I would assume they test these things, like, constantly), do you suppose they'd increase the frequency at which they crawl them, or decrease it? Yes, that's what I think.

Too bad my headline isn't any truer than the Register's.

Well, that answers that. Ev's post is missing, could it be there's more truth to the article than originally thought?

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