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Valleywag's Pro-Google Bias Leads to Embarassing "Reporting"

This is getting embarrassing. Valleywag is a technology blog that boasts a daily readership, as measured by SiteMeter, of nearly 65,000.  Regular readers of Valleywag have noticed something over the past year or so: The pro-Google/anti-Yahoo! bias has become ridiculous. The bias is so palpable that I have often wondered if Valleywag's writers and editors are undisclosed shareholders in Google.  After all, there has to be an explanation other than, "Professional bloggers are Google fan boys who can't do remedial research before posting about Google or Yahoo!." In any event, Valleywag's bias is not hard to demonstrate.  However, here are a few egregious reporting errors.  Keep in mind that these errors occurred in just over one week's time...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).