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The Web is a chaotic jumble of billions of connected pages. Without some clues and context -- dates, for instance -- we can't make sense of all that information. And neither, apparently, can the Google News crawler.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Google now agree on how a six-year-old story about United Airlines declaring bankruptcy surfaced, and how that story was made easily available to a reporter working for an investors reading service.
The article in question (a Chicago Tribune article that also ran on the Tribune Co.'s Sun-Sentinel site) did not have any date of publication associated with it, as visible on this Google image.
Google News determined that it was a new article -- new since it had visited the site 20 minutes earlier -- and placed the date of Sept. 6 on the story in its index, according to a screen image provided by Gary Weitman, Tribune Co.'s senior vice president for corporate relations.
Tribune Co. Explains Revival of Outdated United Bankruptcy Story
Excerpt:
One article without any supporting data and the market on UAUA went nuts. :down:
B) xUT
the Sun SLANTinel never had an anthrax scare, but they are the most liberal newspaper in the TribCo's holdings.
Regarding this news story, if people go haywire over bad information, imagine what its going to be like in this year's presidential elections as everyone tries to "jerry"-ize the news.
Back in March 2007 I received an email from a friend telling me about the plight of Eric Volz. If you remember, he was sitting in a Nicaraguan jail accused of murdering his girlfriend. Although this bit of news happened to be true, I was initially unconvinced and it took me a fair amount of time to figure it out. I chronicled this episode on my blog in an article entitled, "Searching For News." The thesis was simple, we live in the information age and unbranded information, even if received from a trusted source, may not be true.