I've been looking for a google news replacement and this looks really promising. It would be useful to have a little bit more info/transparency on where the data is sourced from and how it's ranked. Also many terms don't yield results (e.g. searching for terms like Linux, Google, AI or very common terms returns nothing when there are obviously a lot of news every day).
nitpicking, but switching off images gives a lot of errors in the browser console due to invalid html:
XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </img>.
Location: http://spidr.today/c/d739b08923d798d62c2e5fe8ff17a76d