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by joe_the_user 1821 days ago
Google isn’t interested in truth, they are interested in information. They are provide a search engine not a truth engine

Google has been transitioning to attempting to provide a "truth engine" for several years. Whenever I try a complex key-word search, it suggests a question format for it (often with worse result but sometimes OK). When I have finally got the key words down to filter just what I want, google whines about "Not very many results, here's what you should do..." and, of course, Google often gives explicit answers for questions in it's search results (a notable percentage of which are wrong as noted).

And Google being half-assed truth engine is all sorts of bad...