JD Lasica takes a long look here. He asks:
Google News: Unintentionally skewing to the right?
He then goes on to analyze Google News results, which are driven mainly by algorithms, and Yahoo News, driven more by editorial judgment. Interesting. I don’t have a dog in this fight, so please folks, let’s avoid the Goon Shadow smackdown.
There is a really interesting point here….Google released in my view a really important paper “query free news search.” I would recommend everybody read it.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=%22query+free+news+search%22
What is interesting here, is that Google don