Re: Embargoes RE: Turiasaurus

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:
> > From: Danvarner@aol.com [mailto:Danvarner@aol.com]
> >
> > tholtz@geol.umd.edu writes:
> > << Perhaps the BIG CAPITALIZED WORD  "Embargoed" might give people a clue
> > about this...
> >
> > How 'bout we all wait  for... (checking the watch) one hour twenty five
> > minutes?
> >
> > Okay?  >>
> >
> > No problem, but it was "un-Embargoed" on Google news  earlier this morning
> > for the entire world to see. DV
> Well, that was certainly an error on their part. But two wrongs don't

This is not Google's fault or error. They use spiders to crawl sites and 
it's all automagic. Fault instead the German Press Agency for making it 
accessible and to a different extent rawstory.com. Google probably has no 
idea this went out.

> make a right. The rest of the news organizations are trying to obey the

Google is not a news organization. They're our only hope against Microsoft 
;)

> rules and are waiting to roll out their stories on the beastie until 
> 1900 GMT.