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kpete

(71,979 posts) Sun Mar 1, 2015, 11:22 AM Mar 2015

Once our corporate partners have decide what they are.
Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links

:large view.

First our surveillance partner will decide what the truth is,
then it will rank sites according to their truthfulness

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530102.600-google-wants-to-rank-websites-based-on-facts-not-links.html#.VPMuPbPF-Y8

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Google would rank a source that parrots media partners higher than one that offers alternative view (Original Post) kpete Mar 2015 OP

With a headline like that I can see why you're concerned. mathematic Mar 2015 #3

(7,754 posts)

1. Could be bad but then again, lots of right-wing sites would sink like a stone.

Sun Mar 1, 2015, 11:32 AM

Mar 2015

(23,946 posts)

2. Worth a try just to get the snow ball throwing anti-science crowd off the same front pages as the actual experts.

Sun Mar 1, 2015, 12:55 PM

Mar 2015

(1,434 posts)

3. With a headline like that I can see why you're concerned.

Sun Mar 1, 2015, 01:11 PM

Mar 2015