Robin, the Chronicle is smarter than you think. (Score 1)

At http://www.newsknife.com/ we rate news sites based on their appearances at Google News. Believe me, the Chronicle has been a star performer there for quite some time. San Francisco Chronicle was our 10th best news site in our Top News Sites of 2004. Now its SFGate.com site is the 7th best site in our Top News Sites of 2005. I'd say the Chronicle folk are figuring out the internet better than most. To flesh out those figures, at http://www.newsknife.com/google_algorithm_watch.ht ml you'll see SFGate.com are steadily gaining in their percentage share of all news sites appearing on the home page of Google News. During the 12 months to early December 2005 Newsknife recorded San Francisco Chronicle\SFGate.com listed 207 times on the home page of Google News and 4013 times overall on the home page and 10 sub-pages deep of listings.