Google Started a Political Shitstorm Because of Its Over-Reliance on Wikipedia

Google Started a Political Shitstorm Because of Its Over-Reliance on Wikipedia

6 years ago
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/435n9j/google-republicans-are-nazis-explanation

Google’s reliance on Wikipedia has resulted in an instant disaster for the search giant. Take a look:

As VICE News reported earlier Thursday, a Google search for “California Republican Party” resulted in Google listing “Nazism” as the “ideology” of the party. This happened because of Google’s “Featured Snippets” tool, which pulls basic information for search terms and puts it on the front page. These are also sometimes called “Google Cards” and “knowledge panels.”