As you can see here Google Inc. - the company behing the search engine - is currently beta testing a new service on Google.com. This new feature seems to evaluate news from a predefined number of websites and adds the story headlines into topic groups. The headline itself links directly to the article on the source website such as CNN.com or others. The headlines that appear on Google News are selected entirely by a mathematical algorithm, based on how and where the stories appear elsewhere on the web. There are no human editors at Google selecting or grouping the headlines and no individual decides which stories get top placement. However the websites chosen for the headliners are currently hand picked. We'll see how Google develops this service...