[soneil]

I think you're entirely misrepresenting the problem.

The issue was that the data was being used in Google News, not Google Search. This doesn't just impact "what URL we follow", but how other pages get pulled in as "relevant". So we can be presented with "something terrible happened" from a news site, and "here's what we know about john smith" as relevant to the topic - without being told that the leap from 'something terrible' and 'john smith' was made by /pol/.