Google Trying to Differentiate Between Blogs and News?

You can see a few examples here:



The system clearly has some flaws. Notice for example, in the above screenshot, Marketing Pilgrim is not labeled as a blog. Nothing against Marketing Pilgrim, but it is clearly a blog. This is even acknowledged on Marketing Pilgrim's own

Now let's look at this sample New York Times piece that is listed in Google News results (obviously not as a blog):



Look at the style of this article. It's nothing more than a couple paragraphs that link out to none other than a New York Times-based BLOG. Now I'm not insinuating that the New York Times is merely a blog. Clearly it is a well-established, respected, and historical publication. But their site certainly has some blog-like tendencies, not to mention actual blogs (like

So I guess this opens up the ever-popular debate about what is classified as a blog. Is it based on journalism credentials? If so, then are you sure all of the publications without the blog label meet this criteria? What do you think?

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