# Google "News"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-news/219135>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 15, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-news/219135 "2003-12-15T16:02:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-news/219135/1 "2003-12-15T16:02:58Z")

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I read the news through news.google.ca pretty much every day, and today I came across this gem of an article about [Saddam’s Capture](http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1071443408363&call_pageid=991479973472&col=991929131147) .

Chalk it up to keyword searches, but the fact that google had this on their front page and are calling it news just had me laughing to tears!

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> Saddam Hussein was found with $750,000 (U.S.) on him, which it’s believed he was using to bribe people to keep his location secret, to buy weapons, and to get the DVD box set of all the James Bond movies.

:smack:

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-news/219135/2 "2003-12-15T16:13:09Z")

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Y’know, I stopped bothering with Google News when I saw a main headline coming from the Cuban state media, but this one proves human editors are a Good Thing.