>Google's behavior indicates they no longer view themselves as a neutral, merit-driven internet index willing to accept the public's aggregate credibility senti

>Google's behavior indicates they no longer view themselves as a neutral, merit-driven internet index willing to accept the public's aggregate credibility sentiment. Their algorithms could never be described as accepting the public's aggregate credibility sentiment. Only view and citation frequency. If thousands of people mention/link to an article just to say "what a bunch of dreck, THIS publication is the problem with American discourse" Google would rank that article highly for whatever topic it addresses. Google is attempting to push its algorithms roughly closer to a merit-driven index that accepts the public's aggregate credibility sentiment. They have been pushing towards this end little by little for a long time. They already mostly solved the problem where medical questions were answered by ten psuedo-medical websites pushing deadly fake remedies and scamming the sick. Those results come up much less often now. Look up any common disease-- the blue thing on the right was provided by the Mayo Clinic and a huge team of doctors verifying facts. That was over a year ago I think.