[PRL] Definitely one for RISKS Digest

Mitchell Wand wand at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Sep 17 17:22:22 EDT 2008


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> On September 9th, a glitch<http://www.suntimes.com/business/1152340,CST-NWS-united09.article>in the Google News crawler caused Google News to redisplay an old article
> from 2002 that announced that that UAL -- the company that owns and runs
> United Airlines -- was filing for bankruptcy. The re-publication of this
> article as news started off a chain-reaction that caused UAL's stock price
> to plummet from more than USD$11 per share to nearly $3 in 13 minutes...


http://revealingerrors.com/google_news_ual#
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