I wish Freepers would realize that Google is primarily built around a very complex mathematical algorithm that is very, very respected. If the integrity of it was questionable, you must realize that they wouldn't be the company they now are.
If it's so sophisticated then it wouldn't need people to tend and tweak it, now would it.
Click on the link I posted (searching news for tax proposals) and the same article leads. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=tax%20proposals&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn
I'll 'respect' an algorithm that does not take 23 hour old articles from biased bush-league blogs (I hope they read this and enjoy being referred to as such ;) and rank them at the top of a search.
The best part about this is it inspires people who genuinely are interested in the best that technology can offer to go out and build an engine that will do to Google what Google did to others: drive it into obsolescence.