Hoi,
To belabour the point, we do make errors, we will fail in expectations.
What we need is not complaining that the world is not perfect, we need to
have an approach that will improve our data and is inclusive. We need to be
more of a wiki.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 25 November 2015 at 04:57, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
this isnt about how or whats of Google its about
ensuring that what we do
is trustworthy
On 25 November 2015 at 08:12, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Leila Zia
<leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
It's worth mentioning:
Dominant search engines do not rely on one source of information to
surface
> results, they get information from many sources, weigh the responses
they
get based
on the trust on the sources and many other factors, and
aggregate
to find the best answer to be shown to the user.
Have you never seen Google display gross Wikipedia vandalism?[1][2] Cases
like that make it very clear that the Wikimedia content in question
entered
Google directly, without human oversight or
cross-checking against other
sources. What you describe sounds good, but it didn't happen.
If even transient vandalism passes through (the Finnish vandalism was
reportedly deleted in Wikipedia within minutes), then so can more subtle
and long-lived errors and falsehoods.
Similarly, Bing Satori's timeline is simply made up of verbatim Wikipedia
sentences containing a numerical year.
We know far too little about how search engines import Wikipedia and
Wikidata content, and what proportion of content is checked and how.
I just used "chicken pox" as a search
query in Google, I see an
information
box on the right-hand-side of the page about the
disease, and when I
click
on Sources I get this page
<
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2364942?p=medical_conditions&am…
("See where we found the medical
information") which shows all the
sources
Google has used to retrieve information about
chicken pox from, nothing
in
that list starts with wiki. Of course, this is
not the case for all
search
queries, for some of them, Google still uses
Wikipedia snippets.
For medical queries, Google (rightly) prefers other sources, so those
queries are not presently affected.
[1]
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-world-series-cardinals-blunder-17587.ht…
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_vandalism_in_Google_infob…
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