Google to blame for the UAL fiasco?

September 12th, 2008

Hardly. And that’s what the SEC will find when they close their inquiry. Coming from a guy with a background in publishing platforms, the Sun-Sentinel should have had controls in place to keep the Googlebot (the automated web crawler) from gaming their ranking. When Google visits your site, they leave footprints everywhere. There’s no excuse for treating it like an actual person, which is exactly what the Tribune tech folks did.

I predict a quiet reorg at the Tribune, and a little but of soul searching in the market as to why they’ve believe anything at this point.

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