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Google story mistakenly prompts $1 billion price fall in United Airlines stock!!

By incrediblefacts

Now this one is hard to believe! On Monday 8th Sept, 2008, automated programs were allowed to wipe more than $1 billion from a company’s value unchecked. When a website ran a story which merely referenced an old Google news article from 2002 about United Airlines financial problems, the hits to Google boosted the old [...]

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