The first 12 paragraphs and the last paragraph are completely boilerplate. There are two paragraphs in the middle that were probably human-written. What I don't know is whether this is just a prosthetic "code-generation" tool for their writers, or whether it's just this one writer.
This Google search shows that it is definitely boilerplate, and that some articles appear to be 100% generated:
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/11/02/is-activisi...
The first 12 paragraphs and the last paragraph are completely boilerplate. There are two paragraphs in the middle that were probably human-written. What I don't know is whether this is just a prosthetic "code-generation" tool for their writers, or whether it's just this one writer.
This Google search shows that it is definitely boilerplate, and that some articles appear to be 100% generated:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1438&bih=697&...
Definitely a bot to "fool" the financial news aggregators.