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April 13, 2007 12:03 AM
Broken: Forbes news article
A reader named Mick points out:
This text clip is from a Forbes article about Zimbabwe.
It quotes the US ambassador Christoper Dell, then puts up a link to news and stock quotes from Dell computers!
this is broken. It probably occured due to some sort of automated input. Funny thing how it wasn't proofed or edited.
BTW: First! (I have always wnted to say that. It felt so good. Sad. I know.)
The question though is... what is broken?
Is that a link setting in the browser to pull up "info" on keywords? - Then its the browser that is broken, but honestly I don't know how this type of link could be avoided in that case. How could the browser be expected to be able to differentiate the context?
Or maybe it is a function of the Forbes site somehow... then it would be their issue...
in any case, there is a certain amount of brokenness here, but its kind of a weak one... oh well.
Memnon: It's the website. People using any browser will see useless fluff like that on various websites.
In the Forbes case, I imagine it's just automated in the web server/content backend to add such links to any company name.
On the odds, that tends to work more often than fail, since most company names aren't someone's name - Dell is an exception.)
I'm going with broken, but indeed weak. I looked at a different article on their site, and it seems that they automatically link companies that are on the stock exchange, but the other page also had a person's name in blue (indicating that it, too, was a link). So they do both, just not well.
_@_v - that's nothing. there's a yahoo fan group called "the new coven of louise brooks" with a bit of text in the intro that asked you to "have a nice tall glass of kool-aid and put on your nikes"
_@_v - in the "sponsored results" were three links to al franken-related items including the offer to have al franken come to your next meeting!
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This is a broken link. Probably some automated input that was never proofed or edited.
BTW First!
(I have always wanted to say that.)
Posted by: TedDBear at April 13, 2007 07:31 AM