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Posted by Peter M. Zollman 6:18 PM Feb 15, 2007
About Knight Ridder?
SiliconValley.com put this great snarky headline on a roundup of items about various stock option scandal news: Long story, dear -- suffice to say the summer house is gone and Susie needs to look at community colleges.

But what caught my eye was the link at the bottom: "About Knight Ridder." When I clicked on it, it took me to the McClatchy.com home page.

Gad, those pesky corporate mergers and takeovers, etc. How many thousands of links do you think they have to change? Not surprisingly, they miss one occasionally. (And you wanna bet it'll be gone by tomorrow at this time?)

Watch the video below to see how this worked as of today:

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