Google News without much fanfare has a few days ago introduced a new feature called ‘Spotlight‘ which it says will highlight “in-depth pieces of lasting value” chosen by a proprietary secret algorithm.

The Spotlight can be accessed from the Google News homepage in the column on the left-hand side above the ‘most popular’ section, in both the US and the UK versions of the search engine.

What does Spotlight do? In Google’s own words: