Bloomberg pinned the blame on Google. The Googlers said because a link to the item appeared on the site's "Popular Stories: Business" section when its bot paid the site a visit. The Tribune Company said the story had and clearly referred to events happening in 2002--something that would have been spotted if anyone had bothered to read it. But nobody did.

Welcome to the automated Web. It's blindingly fast--and, sometimes, just blind.

A brief memorial to some of the many famous people the Web has killed, if only temporarily.*

Will Ferrell (July 1967 - March 2006)