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Entry Posted September 13, 2008

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/when-algorithms-attack-
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Excellent timeline of the chain of events that led United Airlines’ stock to plunge from $12 to $3 on the strength of a false news story that it had filed for bankruptcy. (A old undated Chicago Tribune article made it onto the most viewed stories page via Google News.) 11:02

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StraussBlog (jonathanhstrauss.com):
… all 264 samples and their start-times on each track, and then Andy used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to research the release years of each song. Very cool stuff in the abstract, and an added level on which to appreciate the album and Gregg's work.When Algorithms Attack: How Googlebot And Tribune (And Some Idiot) Killed United Airlines Stock- Detailed analysis of how an random story from 2002 showing up on the homepage of the Florida Sun-Sentinel's site triggered a series of automated (and stupid) events resulting in the evaporation of ~$1.4B of UAL's market cap. …

FP Posted (network.nationalpost.com):
… bankruptcy filing hit the wires after The South Florida Sun-Sentinel posted it to its Web site, it wiped out more than US$1-billion in value in about 12 minutes. The SEC is looking into it. And why wouldn’t Wall Street believe the story given whereoil priceshave been? In the case of Apple, it was an accidental posting (during an update) of his obituary on the wires, which was quickly retracted. He health has been the subject to plenty of speculation this year. …

FP Posted (communities.canada.com):
… bankruptcy filing hit the wires after The South Florida Sun-Sentinel posted it to its Web site, it wiped out more than US$1-billion in value in about 12 minutes. The SEC is looking into it. And why wouldn’t Wall Street believe the story given whereoil priceshave been? In the case of Apple, it was an accidental posting (during an update) of his obituary on the wires, which was quickly retracted. He health has been the subject to plenty of speculation this year. …

Gulfstream – Beebo (beebo.org):
… http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/when-algorithms-attack-how-googlebot-and-tribune-and-some-idiot-killed-united-air-lines-stockExcellent timeline of the chain of events that led United Airlines’ stock to plunge from $12 to $3 on the strength of a false news story that it had filed for bankruptcy. (A old undated Chicago Tribune …

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… most of this happened automatically. An old piece of information that was lying dormant on the Sun-Sentinel site gets swept up by indexing bots, and suddenly causes a real panic, producing tangible results - in this case lots of money being lost. [viaAlley Insider] …

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… Thursday Anil saved the linkWhen Algorithms Attack: How Googlebot And Tribune (And Some Idiot) Killed United Airlines StockAnil tweeted, "There's nothing better than playing YouTube videos with doorbells ringing in them, just to make my dog bark. SUCKA!" Anil saved Top 10 Amazing Michael Jordan as a favorite video …

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… Thursday Anil saved the linkWhen Algorithms Attack: How Googlebot And Tribune (And Some Idiot) Killed United Airlines StockAnil tweeted, "There's nothing better than playing YouTube videos with doorbells ringing in them, just to make my dog bark. SUCKA!" Anil saved Top 10 Amazing Michael Jordan as a favorite video …

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… most of this happened automatically. An old piece of information that was lying dormant on the Sun-Sentinel site gets swept up by indexing bots, and suddenly causes a real panic, producing tangible results - in this case lots of money being lost. [viaAlley Insider] …

The Forrester Blog For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals (blogs.forrester.com):
… of how companies are leveraging networks of people on the Internet to innovate, collaborate, disrupt business models, and solve real business problems. All great stuff. Then I land and my phone rings. It's a reporter who's asks me about the latestUnited Airlines story. Since I'm not yet monitoring news feeds from several thousand feet, I say "What story?" He explains that at 1am on Sunday of this week a story with the headline "UAL Files for Bankruptcy" appeared on the "most popular" list of the Florida Sun Sentinel …

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Zulu Kilo (zulukilo.wordpress.com):
… When Algorithms Attack: How Googlebot And Tribune (And Some Idiot) Killed United Airlines StockThis is a good first-look forensic analysis. A fun read. More about our modern high-speed/finance/internet world than about airlines, by a guy who I think really knows these subjects (If I haven’t said it before, I really like Henry Blodget, criminal and all). …

Budaeli (budaeli.com):
… from around $12 to $3. At first glance it was perplexing because it just dropped and United’s holding company, UAL hadn’t announced anything big enough to cause a 75% drop in price. Well…they announced something that would have, in 2002.Silicon Valley Insider has a great analysis of exactly what happened …

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… Henry Blodgethas an insightful post explaining why UAL Corp. shares …

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