"Google Finally Realizes It Needs to Do More to Fight Misinformation in Searches"

Google is aware its searches can give misleading results, and now they want to fix that.  For example, if one types "can I remove a tick with my teeth?" in Google search, the first thing you'll see is advice from the Centers for Disease Control to "pull upward with steady, even pressure." Of course, the CDC is referring to using a tool like tweezers rather than your mouth, but Google doesn't always get it correct.  Google's VP of Search, Pandu Nayak, said they were making improvements to its featured snippets system, namely the box at the top of Google searches that try to offer the most pertinent result related to a query.  Nayak stated that Google will start to use AI to determine whether multiple quality sources agree on the same fact before shoving it to the top of users' results.  The company is also launching more ways to verify information found on sites in the future.  Nayak announced Google will include an "About this source" feature on any page in the Google app.  It can be accessed by swiping up on the navigation bar, showing more information found online about the website from various sources.  In addition, the company announced they were expanding content advisories to cover more searches when the system doesn't have "high confidence in the overall quality" of search results.

Gizmodo reports: "Google Finally Realizes It Needs to Do More to Fight Misinformation in Searches"