Last Tuesday, Google updated and said it was working to polish its system to eliminate "non-authoritative" data. It is actually subsequent to a British news report which exposed a Holocaust denial website that is classified extremely in search queries.
According to Mail Online, the internet’s chief search released a statement after a report last week by The Guardian presenting the white chauvinist site Stormfront as the topmost outcome when users asked "Did the Holocaust happen?"
The particular site was ran by a group which articulates the genocide appealing the lives of over six million Jews and others in World War II was a joke. Google, in a statement to AFP, said its aim is to provide "authoritative results" for search queries while offering "a breadth of diverse content from variety of sources."
As the statement continues: "Judging which pages on the web best answer a query is a challenging problem and we don't always get it right. When non-authoritative information ranks too high in our search results, we develop scalable, automated approaches to fix the problems, rather than manually removing these one-by-ones."
Google also explained further that recent twists to its system "will help surface more high quality, credible content" and that the tech giant will "continue to change our algorithms over time in order to tackle these challenges." The Holocaust search malfunction is just the newest in a sequence of problems for which Google has encountered analysis for its search systems.
Moreover, conferring to AsiaOne Digital, previously last month, the Google chief administrative Sundar Pichai was retorting to criticisms about false news linked to the US election and also said the company obtains billions of questions day-to-day and acknowledged faults had been made.
On a statement he issued on BBC, he said: "There have been a couple of incidences where it has been pointed out and we didn't get it right. And so, it is a learning moment for us and we will definitely work to fix it.” He also added that there must be "no circumstances where false news gets distributed" and committed to making developments. As he continues, "I don't think we should debate it as much as work hard to make sure we drive news to its more trusted sources, have more fact checking and make our algorithms work better, absolutely.” Now, Google, as the world's top search engine, have retorted to disparagement by guaranteeing to cut off publicity takings to joke websites along with other steps to eliminate fabrication.
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