Elsewhere: How a Google News mix-up messed-up United’s stock price

Google News picked up a 6+ year old story, and no one who read it bothered to see it was from 2002, and it just snowballed from there.  United stock price went from $12/share to $3/share before partially recovering at $11/share.  Everyone’s pointing fingers, but the real party to blame are the people who blindly followed a news article from years ago without bothering to look at the dates.

Sep 12, 2008