Steve Bryant from eWeek published an article where he spotted Google News’ main problems “from a journalist’s POV”. While he recognizes that Google News help “infovores” find fresh information very quickly, he’s complaining about the fact that the News search engine “skips important news sources”, and sometimes prioritizes news that’s opinion.

But the problem is that Google News doesn’t (can’t?) distinguish between news and opinion.

He also notes that Google News isn’t good at ranking the original news source first.

For example, Ryan Naraine published the story about H.D. Moore’s Google malware search first. But today, when you look on Google News, the top story is an article by Information Week. (disclaimer: Information Week is a competitor to eWEEK).

The author concludes by saying that he prefers the Techmeme Model, since it credits “popularity and sources” while the other one “credits keywords”.