X doesn't mark the house

In this article ("Princeton gives away free houses — if you haul it" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on February 26, 2013), it's written that houses are being given away in as-in condition. Is "as-in condition" a thing? I don't think that's a thing. It's as-is condition and no other permutation, right? Then,

readers are informed that each available house is "marked with a red and white X" - and that is false! Absolutely false! How am I so sure? Well,

because of the large photo at the top of the article. Click an image to enlarge it.

Right now, I have $20 million in my pocket

One hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty cents? That's nothing. I think the headline (of "RIM hit with $147.2 lawsuit verdict at 'worst time,' analyst says" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on July 14, 2012) is a tad overblown with its "worst time" comment. RIM will easily pay that measly amount and we'll all move on. Moving on (to the article's first paragraph),

holy shiitake! I think Yahoo! should probably put the word million in the headline. You know, for accuracy's sake. Click an image to enlarge it.

Shoddy job, mate

Believe it or not, this is the headline of an article ("Facebook wants to hire this 17-year-old, but she's isn't sure she wants the job" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on June 25, 2012) written by a professional writer. It's posted on Yahoo! Canada Finance by someone on behalf of Business Insider. First, she's isn't sure should either be she isn't sure or she's not sure - not a love child of both. Second, I would say that this should be a, because this is the first mention of anyone (it is a headline, after all) and there is no picture. At the end of the article is this:

Did you notice how I included an image after the colon? That appears to be something that the "professionals" at Yahoo! could learn from me. Click an image to enlarge it.

Nicholas Carlson is actually a very poor proofreader

This is the start of "Mark Zuckerberg's Hidden Talent: Firing People" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on May 14, 2012. There must be a word or two hidden in the article's second sentence. Click the image to enlarge it.

Who's editing you at work?

It's not often one sees an error in a subheadline. Rarer still is seeing two errors in one subheadline. Here, the word be should be between could and watching, and the first you should be your. From "Who's spying on you on Facebook?" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on April 10, 2012. Click the image to enlarge it.

Yahoooooooooooooo! January 2012

Settle in folks, as it's time to review the errors detected on the Yahoo! Canada homepage during January 2012. After December's measly offering, Yahoo! started the new year back in regular form with a plethora of errors. First, from January 4, the word PlayBook should have mimicked BlackBerry's camel-case capitalization. Something you can easily see in the image Yahoo! provides above the text. Also, Yahoo! only got BlackBerry right half the time in the screen capture above - check out the word in the bottom right corner. Then,

later that same day, Yahoo! featured another undercapitalized camel-case capitalization. It should have been LeBron. Then,

on January 6, someone typed reign when it should have been rein. Gee whiz, if only that person had

simply copied and pasted the relevant words from the headline of the article ("Want True Happiness? Rein in the Buying: Consumer Expert" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on December 19, 2011). Then,

it should have been either lookalike or look-alike on January 8. Then,

later that same day, the the between boils and faster should not have been present. Then,

on January 17, off was missing an F. Then,

on January 18, there was a misspelling of Jim Balsillie's last name. Then,

it's another incorrect capitalization of BlackBerry - this time on January 20. Clicking that link

took me to this headline ("Analysis: Blackberry licensing seen RIM's likeliest scenario" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on January 20, 2012), which also featured an incorrect BlackBerry. As well, it seems as though that word as should be between seen and RIM's. Then,

also on January 20, Seattle should have been capitalized. Then,

also on January 20, allegations was misspelled. Then,

also on January 20, Yahoo! couldn't decide if it was Walmart or Wal-Mart, so went with both. Then,

on January 22, both Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie had their last names misspelled. Then,

the next day, their names were still mispelled. Finally,

on January 24 there were hyphens where there shouldn't have been any hyphens. It may be a 190-million-year-old site, but the site is 190 million years old. See the difference? Alrighty, that's all of Yahoo!'s errors from January! Click an image to enlarge it.

FAILING - FAILING - FAILING

I was reading an article on Yahoo! Canada Finance when the "Top Stories" portion of the sidebar caught my eye. I clicked the link to the top story and got taken to this article. After reading the entire article twice, I'm still trying to answer the who-what-when-where-why of it all. Answering even one of the five Ws would suffice.

Sooo, there are 8 bedrooms?

There are four easily accessible bedrooms in this $88M apartment, according to "Billionaire's Daughter Pays Record Sum for NYC Pad" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on December 20, 2011. And then, once you meander past a few words and a couple of commas, there are four more bedrooms. Click the image to enlarge it.

This Yahoo! writer must be a has-been

This is the first sentence from the article ("Here's What 2016 Will Look Like, Says IBM" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on December 19, 2011), and the word has has no business being there. Click the image to enlarge it.

What the L? Where's the L?

The city is actually Albuquerque. From "BlackBerry maker accused of infringing BBX trademark" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on October 20, 2011.

It appears you are a lazy writer

Okay, but does how you look have any bearing on how you do your job? From "6 actions that will devastate your career" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on April 7, 2011.

Please proofread you writing

When I find errors in articles about finding jobs, I wonder how the writer has kept their job. You should be your in "6 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Accepting a Job" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on April 4, 2011.

Tim Horton's

This apostrophe abuse is from "Make your own lunch, save a mortgage payment" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on June 1, 2010. Is it just me or shouldn't a writer penning an article that is provided by Canadian Business know that the very successful Canadian business Tim Hortons doesn't have an apostrophe in its name?