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Google says it has new ways to combat its so-called fake-news problem in search results.
Over the last few months, Google, along with Facebook and other digital platforms, has struggled to keep hoaxes and fake news stories from appearing in search.
The examples were pretty unsettling, including Holocaust denials, a claim that President Barack Obama was running for a third term, and a wide range of other conspiracy theories.
On Tuesday, Google will have new feedback tools in its search results so users can flag content that appears to be false or misleading. (Facebook launched similar tools earlier this year, along with tips to help you spot fake news.) This will help teach Google's search algorithms to weed out hoaxes and, in theory, keep them buried in search results.
Google also says its algorithms have now been trained to demote "low quality" content based on signals like whether the information comes from an "authoritative" page.
I can't see how this can do anything but fail spectacularly. You?
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-launches-new-search-tools-to-combat-fake-news-2017-4
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @01:54AM (14 children)
I'm sure a few hoaxes do get suppressed, but mostly this is just suppressing all political news that isn't liberal. Twitter is doing it too, severely. Facebook seems to be heading down this path.
Google is pretty much a monopoly. I hate them, but old habits die hard. I need to switch to duckduckgo for searches, or maybe bing. Ugh. Email is trouble; my gmail address is hard to leave behind. There is nothing to replace youtube, which is now "demonetizing" anything conservative. It's been a long time since I used mapquest; do they still exist? I think there was a yahoo maps as well. I like being able to drag a route and have things update. I like streetview too.
:-(
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:25AM (2 children)
> youtube, which is now "demonetizing" anything conservative.
Wow. Conservatism has really been hollowed out in recent years.
Apparently all that's left is a shell of bigotry, conspiracy and rage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:07AM (1 child)
But it's certainly effective, isn't it?
...
:(
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:12AM
Is it though?
Yeah the ginger kardashian is busy golfing while the executive branch goes fallow.
But the majority conservative congress can't get one damn thing done.
Their biggest legislative accomplishment this term? Passing a 1-week funding extension.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:26AM (4 children)
Everybody with half a brain knows that Jewgle and other mainstream tech is blatantly biased.
The quality of their search will drop steadily as well, until others feel they have no choice but to switch. Yet another example of the left eating each other alive.
Even the most hardcore Jews are gonna kick each other for pandering to the whiny insolent cultural beast they created.
Or, as the only feminist-with-a-brain* Camille Paglia says, "The Democrats overplayed their hand and guaranteed Trump 8 years in the White house."
* The only Catholic feminist among a sea of hoary Jew feminists
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:51AM (3 children)
Troll? Fuck you, you chickenshit limpdick bastard. Show yourself, coward!
I call our your god, until before me he stands, but don't send me Jesus -- he's only a man.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:00AM (1 child)
Friday night, Eth is in his cups. Could get interesting, before he passes out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:06AM
It never gets interesting.
The guy is as dull as a license plate caked with bug splatter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:09AM
Ishtar, I choose you!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:47AM (1 child)
duck duck go is a pretty awesome default search engine. If you aren't happy with the results you can use a !g to invoke the search into google, !gm for google maps, etc etc.
https://duckduckgo.com/bang [duckduckgo.com] for a big list. I've found that ddg is pretty decent for 90% of things 90% of the time.
I'm still pretty addicted to google maps / youtube ( but vimeo, dailymotion, solarmovies.sc provide alternatives)
Google Advertising, like all advertising companies, is very image conscious. It has spent millions on convincing everyone it's not an advertising company, rather it's a "tech" company. I guess that's why this "tech" company makes most of it's revenue from advertising http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/business-google.asp [investopedia.com]
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:53AM
Do you speak those words from your internship at Mossad, or are you just another faithful nationalist?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @06:48AM (1 child)
Conservatives sure whine a lot. I guess it is not enough to have most of the power and money you just want to make sure you can have it all. Oh poor you. And this claim that they are all liberal, it is simply because they don't say what you want them to. Its all free-for-all if they do your bidding but something is "liberal" if they don't swallow the lies. Man that is sad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @09:11PM
Your blatant propaganda is hereby called out. While I'm now a diehard abolitionist, I grew up in a "conservative" household in a "conservative" area. We had very little money and no power beyond what our muscles and electrical sockets could produce.
This situation is largely true regardless of one's political leanings. Or are you somehow suggesting that "conservatives" are 1% of the USA's population?
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Saturday April 29 2017, @10:21PM (1 child)
I disagree that DuckDuckGo ever beats Google on pure search-quality grounds. On privacy and ideological grounds, sure, but I'm not convinced Google has a crippling liberal slant.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @03:48PM
"but I'm not convinced Google has a crippling liberal slant."
no, they have an obvious nwo/establishment/enemies of humanity slant. partisans are missing the point.