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
Remember this old thread... (see below)
Now, in the context of What could *possibly* go wrong look at this:
Google News farce triggers Wall Street sell-off
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/10/online_news_farce_drops_united_stock/
Note the bit at the end:
Update
The Tribune Company has
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
On Jan 7, 2008 10:02 PM, Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Greaves wrote:
Fair enough - but this is awe+reverenceThe BBC News/awe+reverence
So getting it right (and not misleading) should trump the mere
impossible :)
IIRC some time ago (months/years) there was something
I used to face this kind of question when doing the analysis of search
logs at the BBC to produce the popular searches right now list.
Obviously I used to filter out obscenities, but, for example,
something like 'big brother' or the 'x-factor' would generate a lot of
searches on bbc.co.uk, but
On 08/01/2008, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used to face this kind of question when doing the analysis of search
logs at the BBC to produce the popular searches right now list.
Obviously I used to filter out obscenities, but, for example,
something like 'big brother' or the
This is pretty interesting. A site I run exposed a This week in... archive
on the homepage, linking to articles that happened that week in previous
years (you can see it at http://play.tm, click Archive in the middle half
way down the page). A number of spiders then went nuts (including Google's)
Peter Bowyer wrote:
On 08/01/2008, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally I would rather the most read/most emailed reflected exactly
what the user was doing, and wasn't most emailed stories from the
last 7 days excluding the also in the news section because we are the
BBC and we
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Steve Jolly wrote:
David Greaves wrote:
I think someone missed the point here...
Or am I wrong?
If I explain that all the stories on the BBC news website are barely more
than static HTML, would that explain why adding watermarks to them all would
be difficult? If the
I think someone missed the point here...
Or am I wrong?
David
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Subject: RE: Feedback [NewsWatch]
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:55:54 -
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Thanks for your comments. We do not
David Greaves wrote:
I think someone missed the point here...
Or am I wrong?
If I explain that all the stories on the BBC news website are barely
more than static HTML, would that explain why adding watermarks to them
all would be difficult? If the site was backed by some kind of
If I explain that all the stories on the BBC news website are barely
more than static HTML, would that explain why adding watermarks to them
all would be difficult? If the site was backed by some kind of
new-fangled CMS then it would be an extremely sensible suggestion. :-)
wanted: volunteer
If the HTML is fairly standardized (I see that the datestamp is both
in the metatags and in the body), it's even easier to add or change
the presentation of datestamps, just a text operation which I'd take
over a fancy CMS any day of the week. Static pages can be great for
performance,
Steve Jolly wrote:
David Greaves wrote:
I think someone missed the point here...
Or am I wrong?
If I explain that all the stories on the BBC news website are barely
more than static HTML, would that explain why adding watermarks to them
all would be difficult? If the site was backed by
David Greaves wrote:
[snip]
And it still doesn't excuse the front page dynamic links
being 'gamed' to point
to a years old piece. I expect 'most emailed' to be limited
to stories from the
last few days.
Would that be the goat?
It was discussed here -
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