According to Google, Tom Faber is dead. A genuine shock for the English freelancer, whose appetite remains hearty. Baffled, Faber dropped Google a line, just to explain his living status, reporting he wasn’t the same Tom Faber as a namesake physicist whose face was now his, according to Google.

Alphabet, the mother company, twiddled her thumbs, despite the journo’s requests. The gist was the algorithm. Deep in the data, the search giant had conflated the two Tom Fabers into one deceased whole. A simple fix, surely. Yet asking Google to undo the glitch became a saga the (breathing) Faber recorded in the Guardian.

Asking Google to undo the glitch became a........

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