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Posted on 03/01/2015 7:24:23 AM PST by 9thLife
THE internet is stuffed with garbage...Google has devised a fix – rank websites according to their truthfulness.
Google's search engine currently uses the number of incoming links to a web page as a proxy for quality, determining where it appears in search results. So pages that many other sites link to are ranked higher. This system has brought us the search engine as we know it today, but the downside is that websites full of misinformation can rise up the rankings, if enough people link to them.
A Google research team is adapting that model to measure the trustworthiness of a page, rather than its reputation across the web. Instead of counting incoming links, the system – which is not yet live – counts the number of incorrect facts within a page....
The software works by tapping into the Knowledge Vault, the vast store of facts that Google has pulled off the internet. Facts the web unanimously agrees on are considered a reasonable proxy for truth. Web pages that contain contradictory information are bumped down the rankings.
...LazyTruth is a browser extension that skims inboxes to weed out the fake or hoax emails...Emergent, a project from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, pulls in rumours from trashy sites, then verifies or rebuts them ...
LazyTruth developer Matt Stempeck, now the director of civic media at Microsoft New York, wants to develop software that exports the knowledge found in fact-checking services such as Snopes, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org so that everyone has easy access to them. He says tools like LazyTruth are useful online, but challenging the erroneous beliefs underpinning that information is harder. "How do you correct people's misconceptions? People get very defensive," Stempeck says.
This article appeared in print under the headline "Nothing but the truth"
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
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Whose facts? Their facts according to them??
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.
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.
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??
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?
They approved what's in the new Ministry of Information Diktat. They have nothing to lose.
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.
What do you use?
Yep.
I don’t use google - ever.
I use Startpage.
Wow. Relying on Google to tell what truth is.
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.
Google is just preparing for the 2016 election. This will result in hiding all Dem (think Clinton) scandals.
Oh, I don't know about that.
They might be far worse.
Ah, phlogiston!
This goes against the basic function of journalism, which is to convince people of lies in the interest of hidden elites.
I use both Google and Bing. Probably use Google 75% of the time.
When they say “Don’t be evil”, what they really mean is don’t be conservative.
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