Fox News uses the strangest version of "lorem ipsum" ever.

[Robb]

This is ... odd.

The phrase to Google is "A 4-year-old boy, shot in the desert after he was told he was going to see Santa".

Try it.

Edited to add: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22A+4-year-old+boy%2C+shot+in+the+desert+after+he+was+told+he+was+going+to+see+Santa%22

[xfundy]

1. Please to explain?

I clicked on the link, and the first FAUX link, but must not have seen what you saw. Little help?

[NYC_SKP]

2. Debra Milke and others killed her little boy back in 1989.

And part of the crime involved telling the child that they were going to see Santa.

They actually went out to the desert to murder him.

She was the first woman to get the death penalty in Arizona, and now her conviction is being overturned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debra_Milke

Pretty fucked up, if you ask me.

[Igel]

5. Lorem ipsum is nonsense filler text.

It's used to take up the right amount of space for some later text that isn't ready yet.

In this case, you type in the "A 4-year-old boy, shot in the desert after he was told he was going to see Santa" in Google and the web page it pulls up is Fox. But if you search that web page you won't find the text.

Instead, if you look at the page source you find the following bit of HTML in it:

<span class="text">It's a horrible crime. A 4-year-old boy, shot in the desert after he was told he was going to see Santa Claus. A federal appeals court tossed out the conviction because they believe the star witness, Detective Armando Saldate, was a bad cop who lied on the witness stand.</span

I must say, I have no idea how DU's html processing's going to handle it.

I also don't know what good the "span" tag is for. I've read a few entries and still don't get it.

The point is that it's truly bizarre filler text for a HTML 4.x command that seems to do pretty much nothing. Perhaps it's just a carry over from another page they cribbed the HTML around the "new" news story for.

[petronius]

3. I don't understand - they're using that text as a placeholder on pages

that have nothing to do with the story? I.e., it's the default text in a layout, which would ordinarily be replaced by something relevant?

That does seem bizarre...

[Robb]

4. That's sort of how it looks, doesn't it?

Like I said, odd.

Edited to add: doing the search in "News" turns it up all over.

[petronius]

7. Hey, look! Federico's is offering free food on September 16th!

Which is probably no consolation to the 4-year-old apparently murdered by his mother, but that's what the search brings up.

Very odd indeed - even the laziest of web designers ought to have noticed that one...

[X_Digger]

6. It's in the meta tag in the header.

My guess is that some lazy web developer copied the tags from a random story into the default template.

<meta name="Description" content="It's a horrible crime. A 4-year-old boy, shot in the desert after he was told he was going to see Santa Claus."><meta name="KEYWORDS" content="KSAZ FOX 10,FOX 10 Phoenix,FOX Phoenix,Phoenix News,Arizona News,Phoenix Weather, Phoenix-Metro,Arizona Sports,Phoenix Sports,Traffic, myfoxphx,myfoxphoenix,fox10,myfox,phx news phx">

[NYC_SKP]

8. That's my take, too. It's the only explaination for some of the sites that come up.

Like this one: http://www.ovoata.net/

So it's probably mixed in with what, thousands of other words and phrases, and used across a whole lot of Fox sites and any other clients they had this week.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Whatever you were seeing, it looks normal now

For instance, the link NYC_SKP give in #8 goes to a page with lots of news stories on - one of which if the (Fox) Santa murder story. Your Google search turns up articles with the news story, or other articles which currently have the Milke story in a sidebox - or would have eg http://www.wnem.com/story/23420292/2013/09/12/man-accused-of-branding-his-initials-on-girlfriends , or http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/buckeye-az/85326/weather-forecast/331820 , which has a "Fox 10 Phoenix headlines" section.

Perhaps you caught them when they were editing the new pages, prior to putting up the latest Milke story.