Daily Kos Spurns Google News

According to one blogger, "Google News is becoming unusable." That statement started off a fairly standard anti-Google rant, but the outburst was posted on a site that doesn't usually discuss that sort of thing. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of the political blog Daily Kos authored those words, and has withdrawn the site from Google News.

Zuniga quoted a post in which "Aravosis" wrote, "When I'm doing a news search, I want news site - not blogs, not left-wing conspiracy sites, or right-wing religious nutjobs. News." The Daily Kos frontman agreed, and expanded on that statement. Google News needs to do "some serious soul-searching about what they are and what their mission is," according to Zuniga. "A news' operation needs to present news, and credible news at that. That means get rid of the blogs (mostly opinion), get rid of the no-name sites, the conspiracy sites, and the rest of that crap." Zuniga stated that he "voluntarily asked for Daily Kos to be removed from Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Doug is a staff writer for Murdok for the latest eBusiness news.