Yahoo f**k up

September 10, 2008 in Media and Journalism by Gavin Sheridan | 3 comments

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Good stuff Yahoo, put a pic of Obama next to a headline about terrorism. I imagine the picture was added automatically because of the related keywords - but shouldn’t they really check it before it goes live?

Update: Someone/something from Yahoo visits within 10 minutes.

25 minutes later and it still features on the main Yahoo News world page:

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    Dave on September 12, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    Gavin this is nothing, look what Google news did to United Airlines this week. Unreal.

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    Gavin Sheridan on September 13, 2008 at 2:43 am

    I know sure! They sure got hammered. I see the SEC are investigating… Will anything come of it? I doubt it.

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    Dave on September 14, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    There’s nothing can come of it, it would appear to have been all machine driven.