MSN announced the release of Newsbot and Blogbot later this year.
MSN Newsbot will gather news from more than 4000 sources worldwide. The service is being tested at newsbot.msn.com.
Microsoft is claiming a first with MSN Blogbot, a service that will let users search Web logs, or “blogs,” personal-journal type Web pages that have become increasingly popular. Many consumers even use blogs as a news source, according to Microsoft.
not very original
It sounds like the Newsbot and Blogbot will be very similar to Google News and Technorati, respectively.
Not new…
As Gary said and I said. First what? This is not new. Pretty sketchy if you ask me. Plus, I’d like to know how they do it. The best of the search engines find blogs via one of the ping sites. Others just crawl them like regular web pages…hmmm