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I recently cursed google search results when trying to research an actor's birth date. There were two dates given on Wikipedia and I wanted to see which one (if
by jl6 4y ago
I recently cursed google search results when trying to research an actor's birth date. There were two dates given on Wikipedia and I wanted to see which one (if either) was correct. Google returned the actor's IMDB page (which listed a third date, and no source), and then pages upon pages of what appeared to be auto-generated sites that clearly scraped from Wikipedia, repeating one or the other of the Wikipedia dates.
This is not helping to organize the world's knowledge.
- hericium 4y ago> This is not helping to organize the world's knowledge. And Google is not about organizing world's knowledge but creeping on people for YoY financial results.
- richbell 4y agoThey're quoting Google's own mission statement; though, you are correct. > Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
- znpy 4y ago> This is not helping to organize the world's knowledge. Oh they stopped doing that long long ago...
- dazc 4y agoA lot of actors lie about their age so I wouldn't hold out too much hope on getting an accurate result on that one. I get your point though about the multiple results for something where there clearly is no authoritative answer.