Typical of our Yankee cousins, not only do they write their dates the wrong
way round, but their history is so shallow they can't remember something
they've read before. Poor dears. No sense of history, or indeed
chronology.
Note to americans: If you want to put the year on something, but don't
I have a slight feeling that there is a conspiracy somewhere here. This may
be similar to Googlebombing, I suspect someone made a lot of money as a
result.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Typical of our Yankee cousins, not only do they write their
2008/9/11 Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm currently trying to ensure that my current client
builds suitable safeguards into a similar feature they're
proposing to deliver.
Well surely it can't take much; something like SELECT * FROM
'active_news_articles' where 'published_date' =
the hard part is getting the people who write the
requirements to understand why they should care
I would like to think they care, it may just be the case of being caught off
guard.
I have search marketing experience and I know that these vulnerabilities can
be exploited
if you can ignore
I just stumbled across this article that explains what may have actually
happened,
When Algorithms Attack: How Googlebot And Tribune (And Some Idiot) Killed
United Airlines
It's quite funny, in the sense of Caveat venditor: all the people who lost
loads of money by selling the stock in the hope that they could sell before
the buyer became aware of the business failing have lost loadsamoney. Big
Greed=Big Loss.
For those who didn't sell, the price will recover, of
I use Google News often and this happens all the time.
PR Newswire is particularly vulnerable, as they don't add the year to
their datelines. Here's one in the top ten search results for two big
companies:
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=126607
No year! Note that the copyright
2008/9/10 David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Who's feeling rather smug)
Me too. I'm currently trying to ensure that my current client builds
suitable safeguards into a similar feature they're proposing to
deliver.
Peter
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I'm currently trying to ensure that my current client
builds suitable safeguards into a similar feature they're
proposing to deliver.
Well surely it can't take much; something like SELECT * FROM
'active_news_articles' where 'published_date' = date(today)-90days?
(I know that's a horrible
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