Comments on: Google Thinks Michael Jackson Died At Age 65 In 2007 http://searchengineland.com/google-thinks-michael-jackson-died-at-age-65-in-2007-21659 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:49:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Daniel Tunkelang http://searchengineland.com/google-thinks-michael-jackson-died-at-age-65-in-2007-21659/comment-page-1#comment-6050 Daniel Tunkelang Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:02:40 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=21659#comment-6050 Certainly an embarrassing mistake, but I'd cut Google a bit of slack on this one. I'm sure they've updated their heuristic to look for the "person who has recently died" tag on Wikipedia entries--and, in any case, they did source the entry referring to the writer. I think the regurgitated UAL bankruptcy story last year was a much bigger scandal. http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/09/15/information-accountability/ Certainly an embarrassing mistake, but I’d cut Google a bit of slack on this one. I’m sure they’ve updated their heuristic to look for the “person who has recently died” tag on Wikipedia entries–and, in any case, they did source the entry referring to the writer.

I think the regurgitated UAL bankruptcy story last year was a much bigger scandal.

http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/09/15/information-accountability/

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