Well, there gad to be some rationale behind the ranking system. So we used a couple of parameters- how fresh is the news and how diverse is the news in question. If people are writing many original articles over a topic and all of them have recently written, obviously that topic has excited editors. So, that would definitely be news that we would rank high. Over time, for every story, I could measure how fresh it was, and how much momentum there was in the news, this formed the basis for the story rank. We don’t link to news that was older than three days on Google News, but if you run a search you can get news that’s up to a month old.
Many sites allow us to crawl through their content, and if a subscription is required, we flag it. The number of hits doesn’t determine how stories are ranked; they’re ranked purely according to editorial interest. So, within a particular cluster, the stories are cycled and every newspaper gets to the top.
Besides, we’re making all the news accessible in just one place, but with various point of views. For instance, we had articles about the Iraq war not just from the US, but also from Iraq, Europe, and the rest of Asia. This broadens people’s mind by bringing in many perspectives rather than seeing just one side of the story.
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