Google tries to put the order in its search engine – The Echoes

Google is doing its mea culpa. A week after “The Guardian” has pointed the finger at the answers provided by the search engine the question, ” the holocaust has happened ? “the american giant has announced that it will work to correct what appears to be a real bug design. A new case which occurs after the computer giant has been implicated, such as Facebook, for some of the information released during the u.s. presidential campaign.

In fact, the question about the existence of the holocaust, the search engine most used in the world, placed at the head of the 14 million responses, the site writes Stormfront , a forum nationalist, white supremacist and animated by a group of people denying in particular the reality of the genocide of the Jews by the nazis during the Second world War.

A site that is also in the header of the response when some users performed the same search using the israeli version of the search engine (google.co.it). While in France, some 3.4 million responses, comes in the first page of the “blog inofficiel” (sic.) Robert Faurisson, a militant holocaust denier sentenced to 4 months suspended prison sentence for remarks denying the gas chambers.

in Front of the uproar, Google has tried to rectify this by asserting that he was advocating to improve the algorithm of its search engine to “spread the information” non-authoritative “. While continuing to offer ” a variety of diverse content from various sources “.

” the content more credible “

” determine which internet pages are the best people to answer a question is a complex problem and we do not always the best way, ” said the american group in its press release.

” When information is non-authoritative rank too high in the search results, we develop an approach that is scalable and automated way to solve the problem, rather than remove them one by one manually, ” continues the text.

adjustments to recent Google algorithms will ” help bring content that is more credible and of higher quality “, further stated the company.

many examples

the reviews on The results of research regarding the Holocaust are not an isolated case for Google, which had already been pointed out in November on false information released during the u.s. presidential campaign.

And on Tuesday, the BBC has raised another problem of the same style, asking the question ” Black people are smart ? “. Out of the 126 million responses, the first was a blog saying that ” Blacks are significantly less intelligent than other races “.

there should be ” no situation in which false information is widespread “, was, however, estimated the boss of Google, Sundar Pichai , in an interview with the BBC last month. Ensuring that his group would seek to improve the responses to the billion searches it processes every day.