Tribune and UAL: When in Doubt Blame the Google

You will recall how earlier this week due to some sort of time/date glitch that resulted in an old bankruptcy story getting picked up by Bloomberg News, United Airline’s stock plummeted to almost worthlessness before the powers that be realized what was happening and put an end to the madness. Unfortunately, a lot of stockholders sold off their shares in a panic and they won’t be able to recoup their losses.

Not surprisingly there has been a lot of finger pointing: the Tribune-owned South Florida Sun-Sentinel was accused of stamping the old story with a current time-date, confusing Google’s “crawler.”

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