Google News is one of the greatest innovations ever on the internet. There are other News aggregaters, but I never visit any of them.

But it’s hardly improved at all since being introduced.

MG Siegler on TechCrunch gives examples of the many problems.

I’m sorry, but for as good as Google is at organizing the world’s data, Google News absolutely sucks.

read more … Google News Gets An Update. Still Sucks.

He feels the service will not improve without more human editing.

Many call Google Search a parasitical business model, including Jim Spanfeller, President and CEO of Forbes.com.

There are other critics. Some publishers of the 25,000 news sources included in Google News want Google to start paying something for the content.