» Google Moving To Shut Down Alternative Media By Ranking Sites On “Facts” Rather Than Popularity Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
Search Engine giant Google, the major driver of traffic to the
majority of media portals is moving to change the way it ranks websites,
declaring that it intends to use known partisan debunking outlets to determine the “truthfulness” of content.
Currently, Google rankings are determined by the number of incoming
links to a web page, meaning that if a story becomes popular it can be
driven to the top of search results, and by viewed by millions of
people.
However, this is a little too democratic for the liking of some, who only like to get their “facts” from pre-approved sources.
The proposed solution, according to a Google funded research team is to compute a“Knowledge-Based Trust score” for every web page, based on Google’s own “Knowledge Vault”, an automated database that determines “facts the web unanimously agrees on,” according to the New Scientist.
“A source that has few false facts is considered to be trustworthy,” says the research team.
In short, any web pages that provide information that contradicts
or questions Google’s own established “truth”, will be bumped down the
rankings.
