Published by Janine on 13 Jan 2010
Not an entertainment story either…
Today’s Entertainment Section on Google News UK has another aberrant entry.
A section is devoted to a story about a wild boar ‘rooting through bins’ in the Forest of Dean.
Archive for the 'Google News screw ups' Category
Published by Jenny on 02 Dec 2009
Another day, another strange Google News result
Published by Jenny on 17 Nov 2009
That’s (not) entertainment – dubious Google News result 2
Disclaimer at the foot of Google News UK:
“The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program.”
Please can someone at Google have a word with the person in charge of the algorithm – almost every day an inappropriate story gets coughed up into the Entertainment section. Today’s example is pretty extreme -
Nestled in between
Published by Jenny on 02 Oct 2009
That’s (not) entertainment – dubious Google News result
Being algorithmically determined, Google News sometimes spews up some strange results.
Most of these strange results are quite amusing, or just gently misleading. Such as the main headline referring to one football team proclaiming “We wuz robbed” next to a picture of a player from the opposition.
A bit more disturbing is the tendency for stories to end up in the wrong news category, most often with a Weird World / Quirky story appearing in Entertainment.
