Seth,

Thanks for your suggestion.. it's worth a shot, so I've added class="permalink" to the Permalinks on Techdirt.. We'll see if it makes the googlenewsbot happy..

dennis.

For my blog, which freely mixes posts-that-share-the-page-with-other-posts and posts-that-have-their-own-page, I had to give Google a special page as they're only able to parse the latter: http://blog.outer-court.com/articles.html

Nope, as of July 27, they added the class but Google still does it for the article I checked.