More doubts cast over the reliability of Wikipedia, this time in reporting the correct status of a famous actor and comedian’s heartbeat.

Actor-comedian Sinbad had the last laugh after his
Wikipedia entry announced he was dead, the performer said Thursday. Rumors began circulating Saturday regarding the posting, said Sinbad, who first got a telephone call from his daughter. The gossip quieted, but a few days later the 50-year-old entertainer said the phone calls, text messages and e-mails started pouring in by the hundreds.

Sinbad will get over this case of wiki vandalism. Maybe the vandal had seen too many Sinbad movies.

(har, har)

I’ve been finding it a bit challenging avoiding Wikipedia Google results, which might be a sign that Google needs to re-evaulate if Wikipedia information is as valuable as the engine thinks it is. Just because a lot of people link to something or even if they click on it doesn’t mean that it is the most relevant.

Update 11:50am PST: Did some checking around and with the CustomizeGoogle Firefox add-on it’s easy to filter out results from sites like Wikipedia as well as remove that annoying click tracking and more.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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