It looks obvious

I bear no love for algorithm based news sites, and I wrote about it in some length. So when I saw this report my first reaction was “I told you so!”

Apparently, you can get anything into Google News to make it look official by simply submitting a free press release with I-Newswire (I didn’t try to reproduce this myself). This press release hoax appeared in Google News:

“15 year old student, Tom Vendetta has been hired by search engine giant Google Inc. The student will receive a lowered salary, which will be placed into a bank account for future education, said Google CEO Larry Page.”

But being honest, I’m not sure that human journalist would filter such item as well.

(Via comment in This Israeli Blog)