Prince William dead, reports Google

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Much like Wolfram Alpha, Google Squared – the company’s stab at “automatically fetching and organising facts from across the web” – has split opinion in the PC Pro office.

However, if there’s one thing we’re all agreed upon, it’s that there’s plenty of work to do on accuracy.

Search for “British royals” for example, and top of the shop is Prince William. Born on 21 June 1982 and (ahem) died on “28 August 1972 (aged 30) Halfpenny Green, Wolverhampton”. So not only did he die before he was born, but he somehow reached the ripe old age of 30. Perhaps there’s a time machine in the Midlands?

Directly beneath Wills is Prince Michael of Kent. Born on 4 July 1942, died on 25 August 1942. How he managed to grow that beard during that blessedly short life is a mystery.

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