We should stop trusting Google search

The fact it reliable results of issue of the most popular search engine in the world, as we think.

November 6 in the Texas church shooting occurred, which killed at least 26 people. Shortly thereafter, Google began to advance in the search results with information about the suspect - a radical communist, directly related to anti-fascist movement. Information appeared in the module "Hot on Twitter», so do not notice it was difficult, even though she did not appear at the top of the list.

It was not the first Google search bug. As usual, the company promised to fix the problem and improve the results of the selection algorithm.

But this promise does not solve the main problem: the monopoly of the Californian giant the truth.

according to researchKey trends in social and digital news media. Very few people unconditionally believe the news on social networks. But this is not the search engines, in which Google is in the lead for a long time. Marketing company Edelman conducted during the 2017 study found that 64% of users believe the information from the search services. However, only 57% of people trust news from traditional media.

Researcher Dan Boyd (Danah Boyd) saidDid Media Literacy Backfire?That, instead of learning to assess the reliability of information sources, the students "simply believe reliable Google service, as" Wikipedia "- no." Google supports this vision - the same as Amazon and Apple's, whose products are increasingly using virtual assistants.

Thanks to Google Assistant search service becomes a reliable partner, who you can ask anything you want. One of the main ideas is that people do not need to know any special commands to "talk" to a computer. Demonstration devices like Google Home show that Assistant very good analyzes the context of simple questions and guess what the user wanted to ask. When the aide voiced false information, then it's even worse than read it from the screen.

Even if Google results in the vast majority of cases are true, only a few incorrect statements on the subject like the mass shooting can be a big problem. Especially when you consider that people believe in everything that Google tells them.

Even if a public company indicate that the results of its search engine is incorrect, it may make it more carefully to see to it that this does not happen again. Google must do everything possible to not show false news and causing a number of conspiracy theories with the serious work of competent journalists. We, in turn, should not consider the search engines sources unconditional truth.

We must not only make Google stop showing fake news, but also to look for ways to limit the credibility of the search algorithm itself. We need to manually compile their children lists of videos, not just YouTube Kids include them, where every now and then there is content, it is not suitable for young viewers. We need to restore the credibility of the news, which are supervised by the people rather than computer systems. Why does Google have to improve it functions, because of which the web pops up false information? Why the company can not get rid of them?