News Article: Old News, Served Fresh

[Ehtyar]

United Airlines has been hit on the stock market after Google news picked up a 6 year old news story and published it as current.

As reported by The Washington Post, this labyrinthine tale began on Saturday, when Google News indexed a United bankruptcy piece published by the Chicago Tribune way back in 2002. United filed for chapter 11 that December, but emerged from bankruptcy four years later.

Google insists the South Florida Sun-Sentinel - a Trib sister paper - republished the story at about 10:30pm Pacific Saturday evening. But the papers' parent company says Google bots must have pulled the piece from the Sun-Sentinel's online archive.

In any event, the story lacked a date stamp. So Google stamped it with the current date: September 6, 2008.

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Ehtyar.

[Deozaan]

And that's why I don't understand the stock market and the economics of the world. People are buying and selling imaginary numbers and for some reason the government has to take control of banks to keep the country from going into economic emergency?

What. The. Smurf.

[mouser]

And that's why I don't understand the stock market and the economics of the world. People are buying and selling imaginary numbers and for some reason the government has to take control of banks to keep the country from going into economic emergency?

Welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism!

[Lashiec]

And that's why I don't understand the stock market and the economics of the world. People are buying and selling imaginary numbers and for some reason the government has to take control of banks to keep the country from going into economic emergency?

It's complex for a reason

[Grorgy]

It's complex for a reason

It is, if everyone discovered that the best way to make a living was in fact to shuffle money from one point to another point and actually not produce much or any of anything, there'd be a riot!

[allen]

When it's your time to try to set the world aright, remember this: when it comes to providing basic necessities like health care and education, you need both the efficiency of capitalist competition and the compassion and humanity of socialism.  The money must be made by Capitalists and spent by Socialists.

[Lashiec]

Who said that?