Google Now Demoting Baseless & Offensive Search Results

androidheadlines.com ^ | 03/15/2017 | Daniel Fuller

[BenLurkin]

The company is doing this by rolling out new guidelines for their content quality raters, a worldwide collection of around 10,000 independent contractors that Google hires to rate content yielded by its search engine regarding how well it fits a particular search. Google is now asking raters to do a better job of fact-checking search results and is introducing a new content tag called “Upsetting-Offensive.”

The “Upsetting-Offensive” tag is to be used when raters believe a site is deliberately trying to push a negative viewpoint, promote hatred, or outright mislead users in a majorly upsetting way.

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[A] news article about current events that openly condemns a prominent political figure will not get demoted unless it is inflammatory in tone or falls short when fact-checked.

...[A] search for the meaning of a racial slur or facts pointing to a controversial or potentially offensive argument will see the results they intended, for the most part, but rated based on factual accuracy and neutrality of tone.

[WENDLE]

They are desperate to control us. The will not control us.

[Still Thinking]

Wow, good thing we have Google to figure out for us what’s upsetting and offensive. Probably no Democrat will ever again be elected, since you won’t be able to find the campaign websites or a copy of their platform!

Thanks, Google!

[edh]

I think I’m done with Google. F-them and their censors.

[simpson96]

What’s Google? Check out Duck Duck Go, “The search engine that doesn’t track you.”

[butlerweave]

so Google is no long a Real Search Engine

[reformedliberal]

Also StartPage and Ixquick

[BenLurkin]

Exactly

[ConservativeWarrior]

I wonder if it’s possible to flag gay stuff as offensive.

I’m betting not.

[aimhigh]

Time to rate websites for La Raza and Southern Poverty Law Center as racists.