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The problem is that people trust Google. If we go down the path you suggest, it means no one should ever trust what they find on Google. That throws it back 10
by dx034 9y ago
The problem is that people trust Google. If we go down the path you suggest, it means no one should ever trust what they find on Google. That throws it back 10 years to where it was just a collection of links and would potentially harm Google more than enforcing higher standards.
- beaner 9y agoI trust google to return things that are relevant to my searches. Whether those things are true or false is up to me to determine after clickthrough. This expectation that search results equal truth seems like a very recent assumption closely linked to this fake news development. I've never personally had that assumption myself and I am surprised to suddenly hear that it is apparently so common.
- nitwit005 9y agoBut, that's correct, people shouldn't trust what they find on Google. There are plenty of topics you can search in Google and get mostly false claims in the top results. Even if Google was perfect, the problem is that behavior is desirable sometimes for users. Most people searching about bigfoot probably want a bunch of bigfoot sightings or conspiracy theory stuff, not "no, there probably isn't a bigfoot".