A section is devoted to a story about a wild boar ‘rooting through bins’ in the Forest of Dean.

It seems like a pretty dull story to me – wild animals struggling to find food in adverse weather conditions takes to hunting through rubbish discarded by humans, but (and here is the nub) I can’t for the life of me work out why it is in the Entertainment section…..

Anyone????

Here’s the Press Association’s report

Any idea why this is in the Entertainment section?

“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

‘Strictly Come Dancing is fixed,’ says Joe Calzaghe (the former boxer who has been dubbed by some “the dancing wardrobe” for his wooden performances can’t understand why he didn’t win celebrity dancing show)

and

University Challenge contestants are given more clues, says producer (the only quiz show on TV for viewers with IQs in double figures drums up some much-needed publicity)

there is a very different story…

Yes,  this is a grotesque story about a vicious attack on a young girl by other teenagers. This is not what any rational person would consider “entertainment”.

How did it end up in Google News?  It must be the reference to social networking, or maybe because the attack was filmed by mobile video.  Still not an entertainment story!

Spotted anything else like this?  Please let us know by adding a comment below.

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.

There’s an example live at the moment:

Woman is savaged in 18st reindeer attack.

By no stretch of the imagination is this an entertainment story, even if the poor woman was once a contestant on a reality TV show.

Was the Google algorithm confused by the tasteless “Sex rampage reindeer Mr Frosty gores woman” in the Metro – Mr Frosty sounding like a cartoon character, or possibly a reference to the Xmas song “Frosty the Snowman”?

It highlights that human editors do a very valuable job!

Have you come across any strange Google News results (in any country)?  Or have you any idea how this story got into the Entertainment category  – please let us know…