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September 11, 2008
One danger of search-collected newspapers
United Airlines' share price dropped 76% when Google News erroneously picked up a six-year old story about UAL filing for bankruptcy and pushed it to the front page.
Not that this couldn't happen in any newspaper, but Google News is automatically generated. This opens for interesting possibilities in pump-and-dump....
Posted by Espen at September 11, 2008 11:02 AM
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