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Stephan Locher [PersonRank 9]

Monday, November 26, 2007
16 years ago4,301 views

At the moment Google News Switzerland displays some strange images beside articles with the source Neue Zürcher Zeitung which don't have to do anything with the corresponding article:

http://news.google.ch/news?ned=de_ch&btn=Los

Looking at the image URL surprises me, it looks like this is a Captcha used for comments on the site: http://news.google.ch/news?imgefp=Q_oGWlCQtvoJ&imgurl=www.nzz.ch/Captcha.jpg

This is the strangest mistake on Google News I spotted until now, but there are a lot more like technical articles under politics or articles about Switzerland in the "world" category or vice versa.

How is it in your country, is Google News useful or just a nice gimmick?
Do you think the quality will improve when google has access to the sources from the news agencys as they plan?

Above 1 comments were made in the forum before this was blogged,

JohnMu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Looks like it's fixed. Good catch, Stephan!

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It's sad we don't have working examples to test any more ... :(

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Link to the JPEG image itself:
http://www.nzz.ch/Captcha.jpg

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