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Maybe there wasn't one. But Google has moved from a "top 10 results" strategy to a "we'll give you the best answer for your question" search strategy. They did
by mtgx 9y ago
Maybe there wasn't one. But Google has moved from a "top 10 results" strategy to a "we'll give you the best answer for your question" search strategy. They did this for one because that's what kind of service they'd ideally like to be for their users, but also because that's the only way voice search can work - by giving you just one answer.
The problem with this is that while before the #1 result on their search engine didn't actually have to be the best most relevant result that there is on the internet, but just one of the best answers, now it has to be the absolute best and most accurate result, because of this shift in strategy of only showing you one answer. They can't afford any mistake with this. And that's way harder to solve as a problem than the problems they had before with the top 10 results.
- skybrian 9y agoIn this case, it apparently wasn't an answer, though. It was a box saying "popular on Twitter". That's not much of an endorsement. It's a cliché to say that people should think more critically. In this case it's just a matter of knowing what "popular on Twitter" means when it comes to breaking news. It's not really about whether you trust Google and more about knowing that Twitter rumors are often inaccurate, however you run across them.