How Google is handling the UK earthquake

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David Bradley 27 Feb 2008 at 9:13 pm

We felt nothing although one of our neighbours said the earth moved and it was quite scary, especially as her husband is away (boom, boom!)

db

Luke 27 Feb 2008 at 10:39 pm

My mum and sister woke up during the night due to the earthquake, I however was sound asleep

Matthew 27 Feb 2008 at 11:49 pm

It woke me up (in Leeds) and the wardrobe and drawers were shaking as well as the mirror on the wall. It then stopped and I fell right back asleep after saying “wow, that was weird” to my wife. When I woke up this morning I just had a quick look at bbc news on my phone who confirmed it was an earthquake. I expected more results from google and was looking for the QDF thing to kick in.

Aaron 28 Feb 2008 at 12:14 pm

Maybe google didn’t think it was worthy enough unlike the TV Stations who like to sensationalise everything. I did have to laugh when it made the headline news and they showed a shot from a wobbly CCTV camera. If it was anywhere else in the world that camera would have been sitting under a pile of rubble with flames licking round it.

Chetan 28 Feb 2008 at 1:54 pm

I was one net those who searched for the organic results in google for the news. However the news.google.com search is the best, but everyone wont be using it, and most would go for organic results too. Google should have updated that too.

Jaza 04 Mar 2008 at 10:42 pm

I was working on my site in Leicester and had to pretty much change my trousers afterwards. The computer monitor fell over and the walls moved a lot. May be I was closer to the epicenter than some of you.

My hair dresser thought It was only local and didn’t cause millions of pounds of damage like it did, according to the BBC anyway.

I suppose if she thought that maybe so did a lot of others and they just didn’t search, thus not making it kick in.

Jaza

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