Google will warn you if the search results are unreliable!
Google has decided to take steps to ensure access to the best possible information. In fact, the American giant now intends to display a warning when the results of a search are likely to be unreliable.
After having resolved the failure of which Google Search was victim on Android a few days ago, the Mountain View firm has just announced a new feature to come to its search engine. In this age of fake news, manipulation and immediacy, it is essential to guarantee access to the most relevant and reliable information possible.
And precisely, when we seek information on a particular subject, most of us have the reflex to rely on Google. Only and as Google states in a blog post, “Sometimes the reliable information you are looking for is not yet online. This can be especially true for breaking news or emerging topics, when the information published first is not necessarily the most reliable ”.
Fact, Google has trained its systems to detect topics that move too quickly and which do not have a variety of sources. In these specific cases, a warning will be displayed, suggesting that users come back to fishing the news later, especially when other sources have contributed on the subject in question.
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“Through these features, our goal is to provide more context on your results so that you can more confidently assess the information you find online ”, assures Google in an official press release. For the moment, these warnings about the reliability of search results will only be shown to US users. However, Google plans to extend this function to other territories in the coming months.
As a reminder, in 2020 Google launched the panel “About this result” which allows users of the search engine to obtain information on the result of their search, such as the origin of the information. A useful feature to get an idea of the site you are about to visit.
Source: Google
