Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links

New Scientist ^ | 28 February 2015 | Hal Hodson

[9thLife]

You report, They decide.

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[WKUHilltopper]

Whose facts? Their facts according to them??

[9thLife]

This article appeared in print under the headline "Nothing but the truth"

I did a quick search for the original article but got sidetracked by the results: a Google-book by the same title. That highlighted the absurdity of it all enough for one morning.

[rbg81]

Exactly. Some “facts” will be more equal than others.

On the other hand, if Google messes too much with its winning formula, it might kill the golden goose. Think New Coke. And, frankly, I wouldn’t mind seeing Google go down the tubes.

[eyeamok]

THE internet is stuffed with garbage...Google has devised a fix – rank websites according to their truthfulness.

SO they want to shut down the Obamacare and the White House websites??

[Texas Eagle]

Say, Google, since you’re so interested in facts, and you were somehow able to you were allowed to add to it in the days before it was foisted on us, what did you put in there?

[9thLife]

On the other hand, if Google messes too much with its winning formula, it might kill the golden goose. Think New Coke. And, frankly, I wouldn’t mind seeing Google go down the tubes.

They approved what's in the new Ministry of Information Diktat. They have nothing to lose.

[Lets Roll NOW]

Google is Big Brothers data collection source. Google is the most EVIL corporation on the planet.

[9thLife]

Google is Big Brothers data collection source. Google is the most EVIL corporation on the planet.

I am not convinced that isn't what they have been from the start. Way back then people instinctively mistrusted them and their monopoly.

[Lee'sGhost]

What do you use?

[sneakers]

Yep.

I don’t use google - ever.

I use Startpage.

[moovova]

Wow. Relying on Google to tell what truth is.

[Colinsky]

As a corollary, it would be the end of the era of new facts. The modern equivalents of phlogiston theory would be cast in bronze.

[aimhigh]

Google is just preparing for the 2016 election. This will result in hiding all Dem (think Clinton) scandals.

[Mariner]

"Google is the most EVIL corporation on the planet."

Oh, I don't know about that.

They might be far worse.

[9thLife]

Ah, phlogiston!

[RedMDer]

Marching to green!
Less than $6.4k to go!! 

[CharlesOConnell]

This goes against the basic function of journalism, which is to convince people of lies in the interest of hidden elites.

[rbg81]

I use both Google and Bing. Probably use Google 75% of the time.

[rbg81]

When they say “Don’t be evil”, what they really mean is don’t be conservative.