When machines take over
[Posted by Dave Haber on Friday, 05/29/09 7:18 am] [Full Blog] [Related Posts] [Tweet This]The English language is dangerous in the hands of the humans that invented it, but watch out when computers get involved.
This is a headline that appeared this morning in Google News (as seen in an actual screen capture from the site):
The Urban Dictionary defines blow as: Verb - to blow - another, usually more severe term meaning to be bad or to suck.
What? Dhani thinks the new Beatles game is going to suck? Hasn't he been saying in the press lately that it's going to be great?
Unfortunately, Google News is compiled by computers, which sometimes have to automagically try to discern what the headline is of the story they're posting. Sometimes they get it wrong.
As you can see from another posting on Google News of the same story from another source, Dhani does like the game after all. It's the computer that blows...
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