{"id":2747,"date":"2021-02-01T23:37:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T23:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1336969"},"modified":"2021-02-01T23:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T23:37:19","slug":"google-searchs-new-feature-makes-it-easier-to-weed-out-unreliable-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2747","title":{"rendered":"Google Search\u2019s new feature makes it easier to weed out unreliable results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google Search is <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/search\/about-search-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">adding a feature<\/a> to help you verify your search results are showing reliable information. Search will now show a menu icon \u201cnext to most results on Google\u201d that you can tap on to access more information about a particular site without having to actually click through. This makes it a little easier to verify if the search result comes from a source that\u2019s likely to be trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>This information is mostly sourced from Wikipedia, which Google notes \u201cprovides free, reliable information\u201d (much to the chagrin of history teachers everywhere).&nbsp; If Wikipedia information isn\u2019t available, you\u2019ll instead see other information sourced from Google, such as when the site was first indexed (you probably don\u2019t want to read information about the election from a site that first appeared on, say, January 6).<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1336971 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/02\/Search_Results_Square.gif\" alt width=\"617\" height=\"617\" data-lazy=\"true\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, for&nbsp;search results such as job listings or business listings, Google will show information about how it sources the relevant information. In each case, you\u2019ll be able to see if the connection to the sites is based on the HTTPS protocol to make sure your connection is encrypted, and Google will clarify whether or not the search result is an ad.<\/p>\n<p>Google says these information cards should help provide additional context and peace of mind if you\u2019re looking for something important like health or financial information. While I would hardly trust this feature on its own to ascertain the veracity of a search result \u2014 and having a Wikipedia entry certainly isn\u2019t necessary or sufficient to make a website trustworthy \u2014 it may be able to at least help weed out some of the more obvious unreliable information. The feature begins rolling out today in the US for English searches on both desktop and mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"post-sourceLink\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/search\/about-search-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span class=\"title\">A quick way to learn more about your search results<\/span> <span class=\"source\">on Google<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2021\/02\/01\/google-searchs-new-feature-makes-it-easier-to-weed-out-unreliable-results\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Search is adding a feature to help you verify your search results are showing reliable information. Search will now show a menu icon \u201cnext to most results on Google\u201d that you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}