Monday, March 20, 2006

Google News Dumps I-Newswire.com



Elinor Mills writes on C|Net News:

Google's news service has cut ties with a press release aggregator after the partnership led Google News to link to a fake item written by a teenager who said he'd been hired by the search giant.

On March 10, Thomas Vendetta, a sophomore at Pitman High School in New Jersey, posted a fake press release to I-Newswire.com, a Web site that lets people submit press releases for distribution to online sites. The release said Vendetta had been hired by Google to work on fixing a security flaw in Gmail.

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 3/20/2006 04:31:00 PM

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