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Niraj Sanghvi [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
17 years ago2,545 views

Looks like Google News has trouble with commas in the title of news articles, changing "'More Than 650,000 Iraqis Die Since Invasion'" to "000 Iraqis Die Since Invasion'".

http://www.nirajsanghvi.com/images/stories/googlenews_oops1.jpg

The article being linked: http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=HF1129983Z&news_headline=more_than_650000_iraqis_die_since_invasion

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

yah thats an issue with the comma's!!

"War has wiped out about 655,000 Iraqis or more than 500 people a day since the U.S.-led invasion, a new study reports."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.deaths/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

Niraj Sanghvi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Yeah, I checked both the story title and the RSS feed on the lse.co.uk site just to check, and the title appears correctly and with the comma, so I'm pretty sure that is the problem. It's just interesting how it completely changed the meaning and impact of the title of the article.

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