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MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 03:44 PM Feb 2017

Google can find answers for any question. However, many of them

are 100% wrong. That is especially true if you ask questions about politics or politicians.

This is creating a real problem, I believe. People turn to Google for information, but much of what they find is simply wrong, and badly wrong. But, how do we fix this? I mean you might find NewsMax and MSNBC at about the same results rankings for many searches. What each of them say is the complete opposite of what the other says.

Personally, I believe that is incumbent upon Google to add a reliability rating to its ranking algorithms. Google's very good at ranking things, and its algorithms are detailed and very comprehensive.

Tell Google to rank by historical reliability for websites. They could do it if they wanted too. We're Google's customers. Let's tell them what we want from a search engine - real facts, not fake news.

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Google can find answers for any question. However, many of them (Original Post) MineralMan Feb 2017 OP
Snopes is the template but already I've heard the rumble of disbelief towards them... AuntPatsy Feb 2017 #1
Same problem when people look to the bible N77VG Feb 2017 #2
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