EPISODE · Jun 8, 2018 · 6 MIN
Encyclopædia Britannica Wants to Fix False Google Results
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
In January 2014, Google made a fundamental change to its search product: It started showing answers to user queries directly in so-called snippets, no further clicks required. But what started out as a time-saver has morphed into a repeated source of misleading and outright false information, thanks to Google's frequent reliance on untrusted sources. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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In January 2014, Google made a fundamental change to its search product: It started showing answers to user queries directly in so-called snippets, no further clicks required. But what started out as a time-saver has morphed into a repeated source of misleading and outright false information, thanks to Google's frequent reliance on untrusted sources.
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