Friday, February 2, 2018

Google takes steps to combat fake news 'snippets'



Because Google has been under fire for displaying fake news on their "featured snippets", they have decided to revamp the feature. To improve the quality of results they have decided to display more than one snippet. Google is also making it much easier for people to directly flag content that appears in both Autocomplete predictions and Featured snippets. "There are often legitimate diverse perspectives offered by publishers, and we want to provide users visibility and access into those perspectives from multiple sources," said Matthew Gray, lead of the snippets team. It's a great thing to know that Google is looking out for its users and preventing us from fake news as much as possible. 
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