New updates from Google on search results, Know its details

A series of updates by Google to the way search results are presented and prioritized aims to combat misinformation using content guidelines.

The new update is all about the quality of search results, so if Google isn't confident in the overall quality of results when you search for something, it will now tell you at the top of the results page.

"This does not mean that there is no useful information available, or that certain results do not meet the criteria," Pandu Nayak, Google's vice president of search, said in a company blog post on Thursday.

As an example, Google cited an example of search results that included the phrase "connect with the Illuminati," referring to a popular conspiracy theory that a community of elites secretly controls the world, and the search returned a message saying "It doesn't look like there are many good results for your search." .

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The move is part of broader updates by the world's most popular search engine, to improve the quality of information that appears in a world full of online misinformation.

"We are not able to truly know the billions of documents on the web," Nayak said. "It's not something that algorithms can figure out, and it's not something that anyone or even a large organization can do. So, instead, what we've developed is a process for understanding the signals of quality and reliability of sources on Web".

Google already offers similar guidelines for content when a search topic is new or rapidly developing and there aren't enough reliable sources to show up in results yet, and the new update would be another way to advise users not to randomly rely on Google as a source of facts.

Google is improving the quality of "snippets", which are small pieces of information that it takes from web pages and presents in bold as answers right above the site when specific questions, such as "How long is the Great Wall of China?" are asked.