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Disagree. I think this is akin to Netflix’s Chaos Monkey, which relied on the insight that it is impossible to build infallible systems, so you design failure and recovery in.

Existing Google searches are polluted with false information, and Google’s has been losing that battle. It’s probably not even possible to win.

So rather than saying search engines should always be perfectly accurate and errors are catastrophic, we should accept that search engines are, and have always been imperfect, and need to give us enough info to validate facts for queries important enough to merit it.