Google News for Blogs

Google's Blog Search homepage has been updated and it now includes a list of popular stories, which are categorized and clustered similarly to Google News. Their FAQ explains:

"Blog Search uses a set of algorithms to try to determine the most popular stories in the blogosphere. We consider factors such as a blog's title and content, as well as its popularity throughout the rest of the blogging community. Then we display groups of posts that are closely related."

via Google Operating System