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Topic: What's up with Prague? and Google? (Read 508 times)

legendary
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April 29, 2013, 11:13:27 PM
#6
The only reason I'd get Prague news story on my sidebar is if I was on tor lol

I don't use tor. Just standard Google News homepage with only two alerts, Bitcoin being one of them.
legendary
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April 29, 2013, 06:00:13 PM
#5
The only reason I'd get Prague news story on my sidebar is if I was on tor lol
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FIAT LIBERTAS RVAT CAELVM
April 29, 2013, 12:32:36 PM
#4
I understand why Prague would be in the news directly after the explosion, but don't understanding it being on my Google sidebar prior.

Google bought out Web Bot?
legendary
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April 29, 2013, 12:28:13 PM
#3
I understand why Prague would be in the news directly after the explosion, but don't understanding it being on my Google sidebar prior.
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April 29, 2013, 07:34:47 AM
#2
It was a gas leak inside a building that exploded from what I can tell.



If that's where it happened, it would be pretty stupid if it were intentional. That street is just a thoroughfare for cars to avoid the traffic signal at the end of the bridge. It's not a very easy place for people to access since it passes under Narodni (east/west street) as can be seen in the top photo in the RT article. The other side of the building or that corner would have been a much better place because that's where all the tourists hang out. Not that anyone (including tourists) should have to endure such a thing. The explosion looks like a simple accident is all I am saying.

In Czech: http://www.rozhlas.cz/zpravy/regiony/_zprava/sledujeme-online-budovou-famu-v-praze-1-otrasl-vybuch-nemocnice-osetrily-35-lidi--1205713
http://www.novinky.cz/krimi/300506-ulici-u-narodniho-divadla-otrasl-vybuch-psi-v-sutinach-hledaji-mozne-obeti.html
http://www.tyden.cz/rubriky/domaci/centrem-prahy-otrasla-exploze-zranenych-jsou-desitky_268612.html

RT in English: http://rt.com/news/czech-prague-explosion-injuries-553/

Love the comments on RT too. (Paraphrased)

A: "Chechnyans had it coming for BOSTON!!!"
B: "It's not Chechnya its Czechlosovakia you idiot!!!""
C: "Uh... It's in the Czech Republic... Czechoslovakia hasn't existed for over 20 years..."

legendary
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April 29, 2013, 05:37:49 AM
#1
Prague has been on my Google News sidebar for the past several hours (half a day), now I'm seeing that an explosion took place in some building minutes ago. Surely, Google isn't getting this good at making predictions, is it?
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