Author Topic: Google incorporating a truth score; anti-vax & conspiracies to rank lower  (Read 794 times)

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Offline Dexter

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I dislike the anti-vaccination stuff but this sounds like a slippery slope.

http://gadgtecs.com/index.php/2015/07/24/google-incorporating-a-truth-score-anti-vax-conspiracies-to-rank-lower/

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The web is full of rubbish. Conspiracy theories, anti-vaccination sites and fact-free “information” constantly makes first page results on the most visited search engine of the world, Google. Google may have a cure – rank websites according to their truthfulness.

Google has recently implemented a form of Knowledge-Based Truth rating with its medical search results. Now, doctors and medical experts vet search results about health issues, which means tha anti-vaccination propaganda is not going to appear in the top for a “autism” search, for example.
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So-called "truth" filters generally tend to filter more truth out than fiction out.