[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.

[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?