Dec 12, 2007 at 9:55am ET by Barry Schwartz

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A reader spotted a pretty strange story in the Google News Sci/Tech area. Mixed alongside stories about AskEraser, the Space Shuttle launch, and “w00t” being crowned as word of the year was a recipe for Grasshopper Chocolate Chunk Cookies, the lead item for a cluster of Christmas cookie stories.

To see a full size screen capture of the page shown in the screenshot above, click here.

This comes after Google just announced that their news algorithms are supposed to be more relevant and fresh.

Related Topics: Channel: Consumer | Google: News | Search & Society: April Fool's

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