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What happens when Googlebot gets it wrong

Comments (0) | 20 Jan 2009 | Rating Rating (-1 to +1): 0.0

| Print by Tim Human

News crawler contributed to United Airlines stock collapse as an old bankruptcy story was presented as new by Google.

It sounds like the plot of a science fiction film: highly intelligent robots prowl the land, wreaking havoc and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. IROs quiver beneath their bedsheets.

Okay, so things haven’t really got this bad. But there are computers out there that can do ...

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