Google integrates “live web” into search
Scott Anderson points to this Search Engine Land post about Google moving the news sources into the search results themselves, instead of in a box on top of the results.
My reaction is that this is an unprecedented integration of the “live web,” as Doc Searls would say, into the formerly “static web search.”
It would seemingly raise the “noise level” to open this up to blogs, but then again, maybe the algorithm is smart enough to give different weight to links to blog posts versus links to static resources.
That concept of weighted links sounds a lot like heading toward a gesture-driven environment, so Steve Gillmor was probably right to say that “links are dead.”
Links, at least, are seemingly entering an era of relativity.