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by arbitrage 857 days ago
Google didn't slip. Google's stock price fluctuated. Which is a normal occurrence. There's a difference between the two, and the headline is really close to click-bait.
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There is an entire industry of companies that attach stock dips to whatever negative news they can find for it. Often this is done automatically and the articles published automatically.

Whenever a stock dips, a whole bunch of people want an explanation why, so they google it and read the meaningless article sandwiched between layers of ads.

Fortunately, those ads are often served by GOOGL, so viewing that explanation helps it recover.