Read Georgia10's
Downing Street & King George: A Duty to Impeach; now something we can try:
Click one or more of these links, and then click a few of the resulting stories:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=downing+street+memo
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=downing+street+iraq+
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=downing+street+bush+impeach
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=downing+bush+iraq
Google news bases its
front page news list on computer algorithms. Popularity of the story seems to be a factor (though not explicitely mentioned). Hundreds of thousands of people see this newsfeed. SO, if we get this up in peoples faces it could make a difference. We could use this technique a few more times (before Google catches on and changes algorithms:). So, click the links, recommend this diary and watch
news.google.com
I think this is an interesting expiriment if nothing else. Lets see what happens!
Even if Google does not change its story order, the sites that have this story will look at the article's hit count and will be encouraged to write/cover more such stories.