Google News' "computers" put anti-GOP EDITORIAL at top of page!! (time to FREEP BACK)

Google News ^ | December 18, 2002

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Not a very good HTML copy, but close enough. Time to FREEP Google!

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[July 4th]

From their website:

"The headlines that appear on Google news are selected entirely by computer algorithms, based on how and where the stories appear elsewhere on the web. There are no human editors at Google selecting or grouping the headlines and no individual decides which stories get top placement. This occasionally results in some articles appearing to be out of context."

[Timesink]

They could EASILY see to it that editorials are never, ever given top billing, or even front page billing.

[MattAMiller]

They could EASILY see to it that editorials are never, ever given top billing, or even front page billing.

How? And why is it so hard to believe that a computer screwed up?

[Timesink]

Look at the URL for the editorial.

[laredo44]

The headlines that appear on Google news are selected entirely by computer algorithms, based on how and where the stories appear elsewhere on the web. There are no human editors at Google selecting or grouping the headlines and no individual decides which stories get top placement.

But a human does create the algorithm. What is the algorithm, when was it created, and when was it last changed?

[Karsus]

http://news.google.com IS NOT A STATIC NEWS SOURCE. The top news stories can and do change all the time.

[Timesink]

Since its easy for a computer to decide whats an editorial or not....

Yup, sure as hell is. I'll repost the URL to make it really easy for you:

<http://www.usatoday.com/news/OPINION/EDITORIALS/2002-12-17-Martin_x.htm>