Charles on… anything that comes along

Nice to see these sequentially in Martin Stabe’s RSS feed:

from the Official Google Blog, September 8:

“Today, we’re launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.”

Next (more recent) item in the feed: FT.com: United shares plunge on old news story:

“A six-year-old Chicago Tribune story on United’s 2002 bankruptcy filing, spotted on a Google search on Monday morning by an investment newsletter, triggered a massive sell-off of the carrier’s shares until trading was halted. … Google said a link to the story appeared on Sunday on a [South Florida Sun-Sentinel] web page listing the business section’s most viewed stories, but without any dateline referring to 2002. “

Discuss in the light of the prediction that you’ll have no subeditors in five years (sooner obviously if you’re at Express Newspapers)…

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