Andrew Orlowski over at The Register makes some wild assump­tions based on a single sen­tence about Google and Blogs in a report on Yahoo News oth­er­wise con­cen­trat­ing on Google’s fin­an­cial plans.

“Google allows people to search Web pages, as well as search spe­cific types of con­tent such as news sources, shop­ping sites through its “Froogle” ser­vice, Usenet groups. Soon the com­pany will also offer a ser­vice for search­ing Web logs, known as “blogs,” Schmidt said.”

Orlowski man­ages to read an awful lot about his own prob­lems with web­logs and Google into that last sen­tence. He even claims it is an announce­ment: “CEO Eric Schmidt made the announce­ment on Monday”, and then goes on to quote extens­ively from his own inter­views with Chris Roddy, a polit­ics and lin­guist­ics under­gradu­ate at the Uni­ver­sity of Emory. and Gary Stock, chief tech­no­logy office for Nex­cerpt, Inc. (who incid­ently pub­lishes his own blog) enough snip­pets to back his own points of view.
He also mis­quotes a con­ver­sa­tion on slash­dot in which someone says “In your search string, add the term –blog” (which is stand­ard search engine syn­tax to exclude res­ults that con­tain the word blog) and which Orlowski mis­quotes to be “a sug­ges­tion that Google add a –noblog option, which it effect­ively appears to be intro­du­cing by default.” That lat­ter phrase pre­sum­ably refer­ring to his own inter­pret­a­tion of Google’s plans for a new Blog only search tab and removal of blog res­ults from the main search which he derives from the single sen­tence quoted above!
This is major case of a ‘reporter’ air­ing his own pre­ju­dices as ‘news’.