Last but not least: The Internet lies - again
Is Google News that easy to fool? After the search engine mistakenly dug up an outdated news story about the American airline United Airlines earlier this year—sending its stock price into a nosedive—the most-visited website on the planet has once again managed to pass off old news as new.
Is Google News that easy to trick? At the end of September this year, a system error in the news archive caused the search engine to mistakenly publish a dusty report about the American Airline United Airlines and sent its share price plummeting, the most visited website on the planet has once again succeeded in selling old news as new.
Anyone who has searched for Marc Rich, former oil trader and entrepreneur, on Google News in the past few weeks has come up with a Article from Weltwoche listed as brand new on May 15, 2007. The reason: Google's search algorithm had a system error. When the Sonntagszeitung discovered the accident, all Weltwoche articles disappeared from Google's automatic news service. The paper was only reinstated after two days.
Has Weltwoche managed to trick Google's secret search formula? According to the Sonntagszeitung, Weltwoche displays the current date on every page for reasons "that it probably only knows itself". In this way, old articles feign a false topicality. Has this trivial trick succeeded in revealing Google's well-kept secret? Weltwoche didn't want to know. Webmaster Andreas Thut: "Our explosive and relevant research doesn't need any dirty tricks to achieve a high ranking on Google". We can look forward to seeing what news the Internet - or Google - will bring us next year.
Anyone who has searched for Marc Rich, former oil trader and entrepreneur, on Google News in the past few weeks has come up with a Article from Weltwoche listed as brand new on May 15, 2007. The reason: Google's search algorithm had a system error. When the Sonntagszeitung discovered the accident, all Weltwoche articles disappeared from Google's automatic news service. The paper was only reinstated after two days.
Has Weltwoche managed to trick Google's secret search formula? According to the Sonntagszeitung, Weltwoche displays the current date on every page for reasons "that it probably only knows itself". In this way, old articles feign a false topicality. Has this trivial trick succeeded in revealing Google's well-kept secret? Weltwoche didn't want to know. Webmaster Andreas Thut: "Our explosive and relevant research doesn't need any dirty tricks to achieve a high ranking on Google". We can look forward to seeing what news the Internet - or Google - will bring us next year.
