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by creato 2175 days ago
What result do you think google should return for "animal telepathy"? I think there just isn't any reason for "animaltelepathyisimpossible.com" to exist, and so there is nothing for google to find.
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For queries that fall in the realm of "conspiracy" like alternative medicine, flat earth, telepathy, anti-vax, etc. I think results from certain "high quality" sources like Wikipedia should be weighed higher even if the content doesn't seem as relevant. For that specific example, the wikipedia article on telepathy would seem more appropriate than many of the results. There is also plenty of literature from psychology that suggests a link between belief in telepathy and certain mental illnesses, so maybe that can also be surfaced more prominently than services that claim they can talk to your dead dog. However this is not about one specific example, this is about indirectly validating false information by simply making it more accessible. On the internet a lot of conspiracies have more "social proof" (through prominence on social networks and search results) than the boring reality so they spread faster than they should.
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