In all seriousness, a search for “Michael Jackson Died” on Google, reveals a statement from Google saying he died on 30 August 2007, age 65 in London.
This little nugget was discovered by a Search Engine Land reader, and it doesn’t take a genius to spot that Google have indexed the wrong Michael Jackson. See, there was a British author called Michael Jackson, who did in fact sadly pass away in August of 2007 in London.
Rather surprising Google isn’t ‘smart’ enough to distinguish between the two, and if it isn’t – at least amend it to show the Jackson most people are most likely to be searching for now.
Oh well…back to mourning the death of a legend.
DUH. Because it is right. Note the (writer) in the description.
Well it clearly says Micheal Jackson (Writer) in the Google description. So I would assume anyone would instantly be able to tell it was not Micheal Jackson the child abuser – Ooops, I mean pop singer.
That Michael Jackson was not a nobody either.
Nope, from Search Engine Land – that’s where they got it too http://searchengineland.com/google-thinks-michael-jackson-died-at-age-65-in-2007-21659
Pic from mashable dot com /2009/06/27/michael-jackson-google/ ? :)
This article reveals a rather disgusting moral. Because this Michael Jackson was a writer and not a pop star, we’re supposed to not care? We’re only supposed to mourn extremely famous people and ignore all the others? What kind of sick reasoning is it to call someone “the wrong Michael Jackson”? How do I know that you’re not the wrong Zee, and this is in fact the right Zee: http://www.carolazee.nl/cms/?
There are several Michael Jacksons. 1 – The beer and whisky expert, author, newspaper columnist and tv presenter. 2 – The computing expert, the inventor of JSP – Jackson Structured Programming. 3 – a singer of pop music.
which one is the most important? beer or computing? got to be beer, a man can’t live without beer.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/beer