Re: Embargoes RE: Turiasaurus

[Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>]

At 11:24 AM -0700 12/21/06, Richard W. Travsky wrote:
>
>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.

The way these things are supposed to work is that wire services distribute 
stories ahead of time, to be published on-line when the embargo ends. In this 
case, rawstory.com apparently put up the press release without looking to see 
if it was embargoed. 

New Scientist posted the story I wrote exactly at 1900 GMT 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10843-europes-largest-dinosaur-unearthed-in-spain.html

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