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[MizarKey]

In my Google News setup I have it look for articles about the Rovers on Mars. Today I get three links, the first updated within the last 7 hours speaks of a
Fourth Mars Rover Set For Lauch...4th Rover, really?

Next is this article supposedly updated on 8/4/05...
Mars rover looks at its own junk heap. Whoa...all the way back to the Eagle crater???

Lastly, another timewarp gem..
NASA extends Mars rover missions. Obviously, Google's driver is asleep at the wheel...Cutting edge news it ain't.

Eric P / MizarKey

[chokai]

Aside from being blatantly wrong, that's downright funny almost! I've noticed this "old new story" phenomenon happens frequently now because many news sites auto generate some of the links on the homepage based on what drives the most traffic, and hence the most ad revenue. It raises the question of what important stories are getting ignored because of it, but hey that's for another forum. Anyways if someone links to an old story and drives a lot of traffic to the site, it is possible for it to get bumped onto the home page even though it's old news. I saw this with a MER story a few months ago on MSNBC where the initial story regarding Opportunity being stuck appeared on thier popular list and on the homepage shortly after they got unstuck. The search engine part of Google by it's very design does this all the time. I would suspect but cannot be sure that Google news has a similar "feature".

But hey. Any factually correct link about space exploration or science on the homepage of a major national news website is a good thing.

In my Google News setup I have it look for articles about the Rovers on Mars.  Today I get three links, the first updated within the last 7 hours speaks of a
Fourth Mars Rover Set For Lauch...4th Rover, really?

Next is this article supposedly updated on 8/4/05...
Mars rover looks at its own junk heap.  Whoa...all the way back to the Eagle crater???

Lastly, another timewarp gem..
NASA extends Mars rover missions.  Obviously, Google's driver is asleep at the wheel...Cutting edge news it ain't.

Eric P / MizarKey