They also use freerepublic do they not?
I have never done a news search and received a Free Republic link.
PS... your attitude is charming - /sarc
First Ping....from the Socialist Party?
Global Warming: G8 can't save the planet
Socialist Party, UK -
... Global warming is now a generally accepted phenomenon, but will the G8 be able to reach agreement over lowering carbon dioxide emissions? ...
From the article
Ex-oil man Bush used a White House official who had previously worked for the American Petroleum Institute to water down research showing the link between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change - he has now gone on to work for Exxon-Mobil. The appointment of a leading climatologist to the Panel on Climate Change has also been blocked. Ex-oil company executive, Dick Cheney, packed an 'Energy Task Force' full of other oil industry executives to engineer new legislation.
Google News does not use FR as a news source. (There are plenty of FR hits in the regular Google directory, of course.)
In this one instance, I can't really fault them for not including FR in the News section, since most threads posted here are copied over from other news sites that are tracked by Google News, and FR provides no easy way for a computer to determine which posts are purely original writing (say for example a Congressman Billybob column). They do run DU articles:
Current Google News articles from DU containing the word "Bush"
But DU has an "Articles" section that consists entirely of original commentary (such as it is), and that is the only section of DU that Google News scans and makes available on the Google News pages; they don't put up the DU message board material.
If FR ever started a separate original articles section linked off the front page, we might be able to get them to carry it. But that's a big maybe, given Google News' "we answer to no one" attitude.