Yahoo! News Getting Redesign, Good for Blogs

Yahoo! News has a new redesign in the works, and in a move that will make many bloggers and "citizen journalists" happy, they are giving some love to blog posts that are covering popular news stories. On what appears to be each article page, there is a section for "most blogged" within the particular category you happen to be in.


giving Yahoo! a big pat on the back for throwing blogs a bone. "Yahoo! may be struggling financially, but when it comes to supporting the rest of the web with standards and generous links - they are in the lead among the the big search and advertising companies," says Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read Write Web.

to provide a more "authoritative" selection of articles for any given query, but they do have the feature pictured at the left, not to mention Amit Agarwal, Yahoo!'s
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There's no word on when Yahoo! will actually launch this redesign, and it is certainly possible that it could be changed before it is launched. It's not bad though in my opinion. What do you think?