Google News is Sometimes Fake

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via CNN/Money.

Enjoy. ;-)

[snip]

As a computer-generated news site, Google News doesn't have a sense of humor -- or much sense at all, bloggers have 
discovered.

By posting made-up articles on I-Newswire, a free press-release posting service, pranksters have discovered an easy way 
to get just about anything in the news. It started when a blogger noticed that would-be presidential candidate Daniel 
Imperato was posting press releases announcing his opinion on events of the day and realized that I-Newswire would post 
just about anything.

Then someone used it to falsely report that actor Will Ferrell had died in a "freak paragliding accident." (Bloggers 
soon confirmed that Ferrell was alive and working on a movie set.) Next, a teenager claimed he had been hired by 
Google. After the fake news made the headlines on tech news website Digg.com, the kid apologized. Despite the widely 
reported gaffes, Google News still carried press releases from I-Newswire as of Wednesday morning.

[snip]

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/15/technology/business2_browser/index.htm

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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