Google United Airlines

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  • The US Securities and Exchange Commission is starting an investigation on how a six-year-old article on a previous United Airlines bankruptcy caused the airline stocks value to drop by $1 billion on September 8, 2008.Times Online: Probe into how Google mix-up caused $1 billion run on United (September 12, 2008)The article appeared in the "Most Viewed Section" of a Florida newspaper the same day, although it was published in 2002. The news section of the search engine Google picked up the story, which soon circulated around the Internet. The stocks recovered later in the day after it was clear the story was incorrect.Forbes.com: How A Botched Web Story Wiped Out... (September 8, 2008)

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