I'm disappointed by the pile-on of people rising to Andrew Orlowski's classic bit of yellow journalism (or trolling, as it's more often referred to today), Google Cranks Up the Consensus Engine. If so many other people weren't taking it seriously, I'd just ignore it. (I just picked this story up via Jim Warren's alarmed forward to Dave Farber's IP list.)... Read more.
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