Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The Erronous Headlines of Google News

by Klaus Varley

Every now and then (and now and now and now) I procrastinate our "real" work by surfing the web and reading news headlines. Most of the time this constitutes heading over to Google News and finding the latest stories.

Because Google News updates so quickly, I imagine news services must regularly rush to release their latest breaking news. And in the rush comes some errors. Here are some we've collected here at The Brothel over, well, as you can see by the headlines, we've been doing this a while.

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"Hearing on Franken absentee case set for Wedsesday"
-Associated Press

"Mile did not win best picture, though Sean Penn got a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the 1970s era gay politician Harvey Milk."
-Associated Content, CO

"ABC News: Heath Ledger Wins Posthumopusly for 'Dark Night'"
-abcnews.go.com

"Will Gmail's outage make me think twice about Edu Apps?" There’sa very short answer here: No. Not for a second.
-ZDNet

"Star salsa dance teacer arrested in sexual assaults."
-Los Angeles Times

Obam Delivers Health-Care Speech at U-Md. Campus
Washington Post - Anne E. Kornblut - ‎16 minutes ago‎

Abdul channels degeneres at 'Divas Live'
-msnbc.com

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Who the hell's Obam and why does he get to deliver health care speeches?

Seriously.

-TLB

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