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‘Data void’: Google to stop giving answers to silly questions

‘Data void’: Google to stop giving answers to silly questions

Google will stop giving snappy answers to stupid questions, the company has announced, as it seeks to improve its search engine’s “featured snippets” service. That means users should see fewer answers to questions such as “When did Snoopy assassinate Abraham Lincoln?”, to which the service would once merrily respond with “1865” – the right date, but very much the wrong assassin. “This clearly…

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[mathewlowry]

In the case of vaccines, the fact that scientists and doctors are not producing a steady stream of new digital content about settled science has left a void for conspiracy theorists and fraudsters to fill ... Data voids may be relatively easy to diagnose, but they are very difficult to fix... cannot be achieved by removing problematic content... Without high-quality content to replace removed content, new malicious content can easily surface. Pinterest has responded by building a “blacklist” of “polluted” search terms.... includes health misinformation images in its “hash bank”, preventing users from re-pinning anti-vaxx memes that have already been reported and taken down... banned all pins from certain websites. via: Diigo, IFTTT