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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Jun 2017
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Identified bug in google news

Reported by potluri....@gmail.com, Jun 5 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0

Example URL:
https://news.google.co.in

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. I have taken screenshots at the time google news showed this bug.

What is the expected behavior?
1. Irrelevant images for news. 
2. Image shown is different and the news is different. 

What went wrong?
I have uploaded 4 images and the bug I indentifed is written below clearly:

1. In IMAGE 1: Comey corrects Trump's tweets in real time. (Image is showing train, which is shown for news related to railway budget at that time.)
2. In IMAGE 2: Belgium: Man held for driving car at crowd in Antwerp, day after london attack ( Image is showing Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, which is shown for news related to attacking AirIndia officer)
3. In IMAGE 3: Mumbai Police busts five including 2 collegians for LSD smuggling; payments made via Bitcoin(showing Arun jaitly's photo, which is shown in news during demonitisation)
4. In IMAGE 4: Are you in a shift-based job? Your chronic lack of sleep may lead to bone(Image is showing a car, which is shown for news related to removing red beacons for VIPs 

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? N/A 

Did this work before? No 

Does this work in other browsers? No
 All browers

Chrome version: <Copy from: 'about:version'>  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 25.0 r0

The news is showing irrelevant images when the algorithm is identifying similar words.
 
1 Screenshot from 2017-03-22 10-06-24.png
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2 Screenshot from 2017-03-24 15-09-56.png
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3 Screenshot from 2017-03-30 14-33-02.png
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4 Screenshot from 2017-04-02 16-30-00.png
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Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Thank you for reporting it. It does sounds like a pretty annoying issue. However, it's not in Chrome or Chromium codebase. Rather, it appears to be a bug in Google News. I forwarded the bug to News folks.

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