News / Image Glitch

Searches conducted on Google News on Friday occasionally returned photos from Reuters Group PLC that didn't match the stories they were listed next to, such as a shot of bunches of vegetables that appeared alongside a story about a Japanese merger firm.

Another story listed on Google News' top business stories had a Reuters photo of a guitarist next to a Wall Street Journal story about Sprint Nextel considering changes to a wireless Internet service plan.

This highlights one of the problems facing Web 3.0 - the butterfly effect. All one site needs do is change their code or xml or layout etc, and any other site/service that is utilising that data will have problems.

The answer is that every data originator builds an API. But then we have a gazillion APIs, so the answer is to standardize APIs. So to complete the circuit, Google should create OpenAPI...