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Google Old News
One of the searches I do regularly to see what's happening is a Google News search for downtown "los angeles". Just now I had quite a start when I clicked that link, sorted by date, and found the seventh story to be:
11 Die After Train Hits SUV KABC, CA - 1 hour ago ... That train had left Union Station at 5:48 am bound for downtown Burbank. ... Rick Godinez of the Los Angeles Fire Department said early on. ...
It was quite a relief to go to the linked story and find "last updated: 1/26/2005". I don't know what tripped Google into thinking it was a new story, but it scared me for a second there.
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I do that search regularly as well, and I too recently came across the train crash story. I think what happened is there was actually some related news (a new lawsuit was filed on behalf of the victims.) So Google found all related stories, then sorted by relevance, which from what I see means simply the popularity of the article. What it came up with was a story six months old. He he.
# on Jul.08.2005 AT 03:51 PM