GOP Talking heads are gonna explode!!!

[Veilex]

Google could launch an effort to keep trolls and bad information at bay, with a program that would rank websites according to veracity, and sort results according to those rankings. Currently, the search engine ranks pages according to popularity, which means that pages containing unsubstantiated celebrity gossip or conspiracy theories, for example, show up very high.


New Scientist’s Hal Hodson reports on the proposed Knowledge-Based Trust score:
The software works by tapping into the Knowledge Vault, the vast store of facts that Google has pulled off the internet. Facts the web unanimously agrees on are considered a reasonable proxy for truth. Web pages that contain contradictory information are bumped down the rankings.

Google has recently implemented a kind of Knowledge-Based Truth score lite with it’s medical search results. Now, doctors and real medical experts vet search results about health conditions, meaning anti-vaxx propaganda will not appear in the top results for a “measles” search, for instance.

Even though the former program is just in the research stage, some anti-science advocates are upset about the potential development, likely because their websites will become buried under content that is, well, true.

http://www.salon.com/2015/03/06/anti_science_advocates_are_freaking_out_about_new_google_truth_rankings/

[TexasProgresive]

1. I keep hearing about these exploding heads

When will it happen?

[MineralMan]

2. Not until Slim Whitman yodels.

Then their heads will explode for real.

[Zambero]

4. They are zombie exploding heads

Certifiably brain dead, but nevertheless resurrecting and reconstituting into a palpable mass of organic ignoramus following each fact-triggered explosion.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Just be a whole lot of puss filying if a Rethug head ever exploded.

[Danascot]

5. Recently read a novel that had a similar concept wrt people

The Utopia Experiment by Kyle Mills

Tech genius Christian Dresner unveils Merge, a sort of Google Glass on steroids. Merge links directly to the wearer's brain, eyes and ears and allows users to access and control their internet actions with their thoughts. Incredibly sophisticated apps are being developed all the time to work with the Merge units. One app that runs on it is able to make complex judgements about the integrity, honesty and goodness of each person the wearer observes based on every database on the internet, and to inform the user about that person's 'goodness' rating.