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It's not too surprising that google dropped the ball. This entry that she describes doesn't even have her birth year shown, but instead lists a dozen other years. That's rather odd for a short bio. Maybe Joel was trying to be polite... never ask a lady her age? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy_Wilentz&o...

>An error in a Google search “factbox” can only be corrected when Google re-indexes (whatever that means) the information that will update the search. Depending on the size of your website, re-indexing takes either a couple of days, or several months. Like good guys, small websites finish last. Note: my website is small.

I think she misunderstands here. If the data is scraped from wikipedia, it really has nothing to do with her site, right?



Wikipedia has to have sources.




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