H.P. Takes Huge Charge on 'Accounting Improprieties' at Autonomy - NYTimes.com

If not a world leader in search, Autonomy was evidently at least very good at hiding information

"Hewlett-Packard said on Tuesday that it had taken an $8.8 billion accounting charge, after discovering “serious accounting improprieties” and “outright misrepresentations” at Autonomy, a British software maker that it bought for $11.7 billion last year."

H.P. Takes Huge Charge on 'Accounting Improprieties' at Autonomy - NYTimes.com