Foresight

Alternet had a story on Thursday about Google's patent application for a new technology to rank sources in a news search according to the "quality" of the source. The article expresses concern over the fact that among the criteria to be used in judging said quality are the amount of traffic to the site, the source's circulation, staff size, and number of bureaus - all criteria that heavily favor big, mainstream media sources at the expense of smaller, independent ones.

Gee, it seems to me I said exactly that just last, uh, month.