And Algorithms Choose Poor Style, Too

This article compares how Yahoo News and Google News operate. The main difference, of course, is that Yahoo uses humans to produce its page while Google uses algorithms. Google's methods result in some very strange quirks that go beyond the occasional wrong picture with the article (I believe when Ronald Reagan died, Google News served up a picture of him in "Bedtime for Bonzo" alongside the story on its page). However, since the article is from the Online Journalism Review, the site that employs journalists rather than those-cursed-machines-that-want-to-steal-our-jobs naturally wins out, so take some of it with a grain of salt. Still, Google may want to be a bit more selective in choosing the sources it deems "news."

OJR article: Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories