Blogs Clog The Flow of Information

" ...blog results inundate Google search results."

says Jeneane over at Allied, and I've been wondering when bloggers were going to start talking about this. Yes, you ... you cloggers of the information pipeline. Is your last post funny, useful, human, new, or just plain terrific writing?

Or are you just this whiz-bang guy with the handcrafted Wordpress layout, awash in widgets and gadgets, footers and sliders and Punsalen's (wonderful) latest trick—without a single goddamn thing to say. Because when the only purpose of your post is to hand me off to another page, I could wring your scrawny little web developers neck.

Dear Reader, Are you Googling for a certain bit of information? Then prepare yourself for the Long Wade. And, dammit, if I wanted to know the thoughts of every web guy on this continent and several others ... well, I just don't. Y'all have a happy time trading Selector stories and faking out IE.

The real user, the person without time to waste, is better off at Clusty (formerly Vivismo—okay, these people need help with naming.) Clustered search results are magnificent. Blog results. Results by search engine. (Making it possible to ignore the mammoth worthlessness of MSN, who will link to a comma.)

That's really all I got to say. (All?) Including blogs in the main search may result in a thrill from this end (Page Rank, Page Rank!) but when I am after information: Most blogs? Get the fork out of my way.