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<DIV>This happens fairly often with Google. This time it was a problem because the date was changed to the current date (presumably by Bloomberg).</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message from "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud@fairpoint.net>: -------------- <BR><BR><BR>> > A surfer views a newspaper old article about a company's bankrupcy on a <BR>> > low traffic period. <BR>> > It bumps to Popular Stories <BR>> > Google News Bot catches it as a new article <BR>> > From Google News it moves to Bloomberg financial information service <BR>> > Investors dumps the stock <BR>> > Algorithms also sell. <BR>> > The stock plunged from around $12 to just $3 a share <BR>> > <BR>> > http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4742147.ece <BR>> <BR>> If I were doing the suing of Google, I would point out that there was <BR>> existing technology in use (on Search Wikia) which, if in place on <BR>> Google, would have encouraged user input which would have permitted user <BR>> feedback which could have prevented continued display of the error a top <BR>> hit. Of course a user would have to actually have read the story. Traders <BR>> may not. <BR>> <BR>> Fred <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> Wikia Search mailing list <BR>> http://re.search.wikia.com/ <BR>> Change options or unsubscribe: http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/options/search-l </BLOCKQUOTE>
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