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		snarfy on March 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google wants to rank websites based on facts not l... It might make google's results less relevant. People don't believe in the truth. They follow the general consensus. They might switch to a different search engine because google 'gives bad results'. Mob mentality is real.

bobajeff on March 2, 2015 | [–]

From the article it sounds like it considers general consensus to be the truth. Which sounds worse in my mind.

cwyers on March 2, 2015 | [–]

According to the article, Google's measure of truth is actually a measure on consensus. Which I find rather troubling.

Veedrac on March 2, 2015 | [–]

In a sense, it already is. The link-based ranking system is a measure of popularity.

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