Dec 12, 2007 at 9:55am ET by Barry Schwartz
A reader spotted a pretty strange story in the Google News Sci/Tech area. Mixed alongside stories about AskEraser, the Space Shuttle launch, and “w00t” being crowned as word of the year was a recipe for Grasshopper Chocolate Chunk Cookies, the lead item for a cluster of Christmas cookie stories.
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This comes after Google just announced that their news algorithms are supposed to be more relevant and fresh.
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