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The disappearing CICT story on INQ7.Net

March 4, 2005

In an earlier post, I made reference to an INQ7.Net story entitled “CICT chief wonders why Disini is after him” which was posted on March 2, 2005 under the following URL: http://beta.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=29216.
If you follow the link now, it leads to a story about PLDT and VOIP.

What happened to the original story? Jangelo posted the following comment:

Sir,

Article is indeed “offline” acording to inq7.net. But a google cache is available, with the corresponding reference and retrieval dates (i.e., which implies that inq7.net did indeed publish the material).

http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:t3022mqavvgJ:news.inq7.net/mobile/html_output/20050302-29217.xml.html&hl=en&lr=&strip=0…

Curious. A glitch? Or intentional?

Regards. =)

Angelo

I want to know, too.

Posted by JJ Disini at 5:52 pm | permalink

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Sir,
Link to my blog here: http://jangelo.i.ph for the benefit of your readers. =) As of this writing, the link in the original post is broken.

Best regards,

Angelo

Posted by jangelo at March 4, 2005, 6:13 pm

you might wanna fix the links. some are broken

Posted by renan at March 5, 2005, 1:59 am

Hi JJ,

I found the article you were referencing here. You’ll notice that the story id is one value from the one that you originally mentioned. It’s not a glitch; the editors probably re-arranged the ordering of the articles.

I’ve never known INQ7 to pull an article it has published. Anyways, hope this helps.

Posted by Gabby Dizon at March 5, 2005, 7:35 pm

Thanks for the info, Gabby. Myself, I was wondering how that could happen. It’s just weird that when I went looking for the article on INQ7.net and Google, it wasn’t there anymore.

I think it’s more a reflection of my being a “techno-bobo” (to borrow a word from my sister).

Cheers!

Posted by JJ at March 5, 2005, 8:54 pm

Perhaps due to lag time in Google’s webcrawlers? =)

Anyway, I don’t trust inq7.net’s search features. I don’t know why online versions of our local newspapers (most, at least) don’t have dependable search features.

Angelo

Posted by jangelo at March 6, 2005, 1:14 am

JJ,

inq7.net’s stories stay only up to 7 days. It says in their archives. Thats why in case I want a record of a particular story, I copy and paste it immediately for my file :)

Check out the Archives link and you will see the notice - I think its their syndication policy.

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