Reply #36: You keep bootstrapping [View All]

[charlie]

from one supposition to the next until you have what you want. If they can afford editors, they must have them. They plan to dominate, therefore they're doing every unscrupulous thing I can imagine. If I can't believe they don't do ideological editing, they must be lying. Therefore the Republicans own them, case closed.

The moderators for Yahoo controlled the users. I'm talking about editing what they put themselves on their own web page.

I don't know what sort of distinction you're trying to make when you say Yahoo controlled "the users." Yahoo determined who got into their listings and weighted which ones got the coveted spots at the top -- by hand. In other words, they were "editing what they put themselves on their own web page." Yahoo did what you're accusing Google of doing.

A news aggregator isn't a restaurant. Not every dish served needs to be a boffo hit. Timeliness and the reliability of sources is what matters.

If Google has the ideological editorial team you're certain of, their office must be like a Wall Street trading pit. Refresh the GNews page every 5 minutes for a while and watch the content change. While you're doing that, watch the articles from a specific site, say the one that's vexed you above, SFGate, and see the rearrangement and replacement that happens. Multiply that source by a few thousand and you've got a Red Army sized team culling the Republican-slanted stuff.