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Prepending the source won't stop people from giving weight to the answer. Because it's the first and only one. You would probably risk giving more credibility to sites like Breitbart by crediting them with the top result, as people will come to associate those site names with answers given "by Google." If Google gives you a top search result, it means Google trusts that result to be a good one. There's no getting aro…
If Google gives you a top search result, it means Google trusts that result to be a good one. Google doesn't "trust". That kind of thinking is the problem. Google has computed a ranking of the search results based on a bunch of factors, none of which involve any kind of cognitive analysis or judgement. The rest of your statement is absolutely right; people trust Google's ranking to imply an authority that it simply c…
Re: Google featured snippets are worse than fake news
#191When I say Google "trusts" the result to be a good one I am saying that I believe their engineers and managers think their top answers algorithm is good enough, and trustworthy enough, to roll-out on a large scale like they have done.