Dustin's Blog

4/11/08 6:23 PM

The meaning of life according to Google News: 86640

 We have had some long standing arguements about data integrity here.  My colleagues and other users often point out data on a graph that makes no sense.  I have always argued that we should provide the data we receive as-is, i.e. if google news provides the wrong data, then the graph will show the wrong data.  Until now we have not altered any of the data we received (I guess you'd say I won :) -- if only because I would be the one who would have to write the data-normalization code). 

Now, many of you will have noticed that the vast majority of google news graphs have gone haywire.  Google news is now randomly return the value 86640 for any query.  I think they are trying to tell us something.  I'm no numerologist, but I'm guess that 86640 is the meaning to life we have all been looking for.  As such, I have deleted all references to it, and you will never see it again.  You're welcome.

-Dustin

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