The first problem I fell over after less than 20 seconds on the site.
You get too many “May be relevant”-stories, things that does not have anything to do with what I’m looking for, but have some kind of relation to it.

When I search for Michael Vick, I wan’t to know about the dogfighting scandal, and not “UPI NewsTrack Sports”.
Then of course you will argument that some people just wan’t to know about how he played last night, which is true, but if I have to write half an article to get the right news, I’m probably just going to read cnn instead.
What I’m trying to say is that you need some kind of algorithm that finds the “HOT NOW!” news, and sorts out the rest in a “Related” collection, maybe aligned in the right side of the page

But all in all, a very good idea that I very well could find myself using, if I mostly got the news I’m looking for and related to it

Thumbs up from here!

That’s my 2 cent!

(by the way – your javascript is making my browser go craaazy)