Good point that there can be misaligned incentives between searcher and search engine. Is it really the case here though? Most people would be running this se

Good point that there can be misaligned incentives between searcher and search engine. Is it really the case here though? Most people would be running this search because they heard about the story elsewhere, so they will consider the search engine less useful when they see a completely different (non-)story. If it was a bizarre tale about a prime minister making bus models, maybe, but "Politician praises himself, more news at 11" in place of a story hours earlier doesn't appear to help Google.