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1. Comment - A Michael Jackson post-mortem on Internet journalism

   (Jul 5, 2009 - 1:59 PM)

   That is an interesting perspective, and right on. I went straight to the TV from my computer to get the latest news. Ironic, since often go to the Internet to get the 'new news'.
   
   Google has acknowledged a problem getting new information live to customers, and how it has fallen behind Twitter as a rapid news source. That is one reason why, for instance, for Google searches there is now a new option to get search results from pages updated within the last 24 hours.
   
   Over at http://michaeljacksonfuneral.org we have been following what Google has been showing for various aspects of this big news story. It has been surprisingly disappointing. Yahoo has been better. MSN/Live/Bing is just a disaster.
   
   When there are computer generated results being given to people looking for information, it will just never compare to human created results - which is why CNN can still beat Google.