With fake news having set up shop across the internet, Google wants to make it harder to find and spread hoaxes.Google announced Tuesday that it’s changing how its search engine works to ”surface more high quality content from the web.” The search engine giant said that about 0.25 percent of its results had ”offensive or clearly misleading content,” and it set out to fix that by changing how results are ranked and introducing reporting tools for users.Over the last month, after Google updated its search quality guidelines, it used testers to weed out low-quality content, whoch included fake news, offensive results and bogus conspiracy theories. The search giant collected the data from the evaluators and is applying it to the ranking algorithm to push fake news further down in search results.Google said its improved algorithm would prevent incidents like Holocaust deniers popping up if you search ”did the Holocaust happen,” whoch occurred in December.
Källa: Google tweaks search results to squash fake news – CNET
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