saad hariri – Eliedh’s Blog http://www.eliedh.com Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:47:06 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Google Knows Everything?! http://www.eliedh.com/2010/04/24/google-knows-everything/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-knows-everything Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:45:18 +0000 http://www.eliedh.com/?p=609 Found those quotes by Rafik Hariri on google news after the football match our politicians played! I guess google missed a thing or two in 2005!

From this error I guess what google news does when looking for quotes is try to find a full name for some last name that is followed by a quote. For example all the articles contain: “Hariri said: blabla”. Since most of the articles are from foreign news outlets they have a summary on where does Saad Hariri come from containing “Rafik Hariri died in a …” so what google does is that it looks for the full name of a person inside a bunch of articles and assumes he’s the one giving opinions.

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