Journal tomhudson's Journal: Google News recycling old news again 5
Readers may recall the stock market rattle when google recently reported that United Airlines had filed for bankruptcy - in 2002.
Now frakkedcompany.com reports, complete with a screenshot, that Google is recycling a story from July 30th about HP and EDS laying off 10,000 as "5 hours ago".
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Works fine for me ...
Maybe you're behind a firewall that doesn't like "frakked" :-)
World domination (Score:2)
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If google takes over the world, it will be because people are willing to give in to their tendency to be lazy. Delegate as much as possible to machine algorithms, including any fact-checking and common sense, and "let the profits flow."
The problem with automatic crawls is that nobody vets them. Billions were lost in a few hours over the UAL story thanks to a human error - the error being that the person who took the feed didn't bother to check the date.
It's easy to blame the machines ... or the progr
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Belief in the infallibility of machines is a common attitude among some people, including those who should know a lot better.
Yesterday I spent an hour in a design meeting explaining to someone why I wanted them to implement a manual signal process that a human could use to shut down a large number of remote processes in case the operators discovered a major problem in the central machine. The signal could then cause the remotes to switch to an alternate machine for processing, for example.
They spent th