A Billion Dollar Booboo

Category: Internet
Posted: September 13, 2008 04:36PM
Author: Bosco

I wouldn't want to be in any of the companies that are involved in this nightmare that has occured. It seems that Google spidered a page about United Airlines filed for bankruptcy in 2002 somehow it got revived as a new page. So of course other sites started picking the story up and news spread causing United's stock to fall to $3 all the way from $12. As of yesterday it was back up to $11 but still lower then what it was I can only guess how frustrated shareholders are right about now. Spidering webpages is not always a good thing but hopefully they can take this mistake and build from it to improve how they spider websites.