Google’s Featured Answers Aim to Distill Truth—But Often Get It Wrong

Updated on: 2017-11-17
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Google’s Featured Answers Aim to Distill Truth—But Often Get It Wrong
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Google’s Featured Answers Aim to Distill Truth—But Often Get It Wrong
Going beyond search, the internet giant is promoting a single result over all others, and many are contentious, improbable or laughably incorrect
By
Jack.Nicas@dowjones.com
Nov. 16, 2017 10:58 a.m. ET
Google became the world’s go-to source of information by ranking billions of links from millions of sources. Now, for many queries, the internet giant is presenting itself as the authority on truth by promoting a single search result as the answer.
To the question “Does money buy happiness?” Google recently highlighted a result that stated: “There is enough scientific research to prove” it.
“Who...
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