A near bankruptcy due to google error...


	A near bankruptcy due to google error...

balthazarus

9-14-2008 11:54 AM

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google, reliability

balthazarus says:

what happened was: "The media company said a single visit to the bankruptcy story in the wee hours Sunday morning, when traffic to the newspaper's site was low, pushed the item onto the list of popular articles. Google's search technology then picked up the story as breaking news, Tribune said."

Scary...

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9-14-2008 3:41 PM

gzuckier

well, it's certainly reassuring that we couldn't accidentally start a war by a similar computrized system. right?

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