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Google News Archive Hiccup

By: Philipp Lenssen
2008-09-16

Googles news archive search engine has a timeline option, mapping events and names. The usefulness of this feature greatly varies, as quite often its broken.

A search for techcrunch, for instance, reveals the earliest occurrence to be 125 AD. According to Wikipedia, this was the year of the construction of the Pantheon, the last year of the Yanguang era of the Chinese Han Dynasty, and the time when Pope Telesphorus succeeded Pope Sixtus I as the eighth pope... and apparently, it was the age of TechCrunch, though a closer look at the result shows its just a Google parsing error: the page Google analyzed talks about a 125-125 ad, used by big blogs like ProBlogger, TechCrunch, and ReadWriteWeb.

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About the Author:
Philipp Lenssen from Germany, author of Google Apps Hacks, shares his views & news on the search industry in the daily Google Blogoscoped.


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