14 DAY TRIAL // Today, while I was reading the latest headlines published on Google News, an uncanny thing caught my attention. As you can see in the picture attached to the article, Google News displayed the same headlines, the same author with the same information no more than three times. They were all redirecting the readers to a "Get Google Pack" article published by the same author 33 minutes ago. Although I'm not sure if this is a new spam attempt to Google News, it seems like the service is a little buggy and displays the same news for three times. The only difference is the little description of the article as well as its beginning.
Look at the first "Get Google Pack" article. Do you see the "all 2 news articles" option displayed under the link? What do you think it happened after I clicked on it? Believe it or not, nothing happened. It returned me a strange error: "No related articles were found". More than that, I opened all the three articles with the same title. I was redirected to the same website but to three different news that had no relation to the Google Pack powered by the search giant. So, where's the bug?
Let's suppose that I'm a news publisher and my article is displayed on the fifth page because the previous author has three articles, all of them with the same title but redirecting the users to a different content. I'm really outraged because my news are quickly pushed out from the index so I will probably look for an alternative soon. This is how Google loses a client. No matter it is a small or a large website, it represents an important customer for the search giant. Now, let me hope that Google will fix the problem soon and repair the buggy service.
