Google changes upset bloggers

There's plenty of angry reaction to a recent change in the way Google looks at sites, neatly summed up in this post from Mark Pilgrim's diveintomark.org. There are claims the weblogging community has been hit hard, although it seems they could just be collateral damage from Google's attack on the real target, "Google spammers". These are the people who exploit the way Google does it indexing to push irrelevant sites to the top of certain Google searches. The fact that many webloggers indulged in this practice could explain why this community has been particularly hard hit, if that is the case. As far as I know, Onlineblog's position in the Google index remains unchanged.