United Airlines Bankruptcy Story Sorted Out

After a bit of detective work, Tribune Co. and Google believe they've discovered how a six-year-old story came to be treated like breaking news, causing problems for United Airlines as well as the news sources that reported it.
Poynter Online's Steve Myers has the in-depth story, which involves Google's news crawler, an undated article, and a higher-than-expected traffic count.
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