You already know about “Bots Gone Bad”— the episode where a Google “bot” crawling the Internet found a 2002 story about United Airlines declaring bankruptcy, somehow erroneously concluded it was a current story, and added it to Google News. The 2002 story was ultimately sent out with a fresh date by Bloomberg on September 8, leading to an immediate and massive sell-off of UAL stock that temporarily knocked a billion dollars off of the company’s market cap.
