“Who are the American presidents who are members of the Ku Klux Klan?”, “What happened to the dinosaurs?”, “How to contact the Illuminati?”. Here’s a non-exhaustive anthology of questions Google should soon no longer be answering, the Daily Mail found.
In any case, this is the desire of the team in charge of the search engine. The latter announced, in a blog post, an update to the “featured excerpts” feature. This is a selection of text from a website that appears at the top of Google search results designed to quickly respond to a user’s query.
Fighting misinformation
Objective: obtain more coherent explanations and avoid the proliferation of fake news. For good reason, a few years ago, to the question “are women bad?”, the searcher answered in a featured excerpt: “every woman has a certain degree of prostitute in her. Every woman has a little bit of evil in her … Women don’t like men, they like what they can do for them,” reports the Daily Mail.
In an attempt to address the root cause of these errors, Google also plans to introduce warnings in cases where there is no correct answer for a query. “It seems that there are not many good results for this search,” the search engine now warns the Internet user.
In 2017, Google was accused of spreading fake news after a search result for the query “Is Obama planning a coup” concluded with the answer: “Obama could be planning a communist coup at the end of his term.” mandate in 2016″. The search engine had found the information on a conspiratorial site.
Source: BFM TV
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