Google Home giving that horrible answer to "are women evil" on Friday. It is within reason to say women feel attraction but they cannot love men.” Every woman has a little evil in her… Women don’t love men, they love what they can do for them. In December, a writer for The Guardian noticed that asking “Are women evil?” produced this enlightening featured snippet: “Every woman has some degree of prostitute in her. In 2015, users discovered that the query “What happened to the dinosaurs?” produced the quick answer “Dinosaurs are used more than anything else to indoctrinate children and adults in the idea of millions of years of earth history,” pulled from a fundamentalist Christian page titled “What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?” Google didn’t comment, but the featured snippet changed to a quote from the University of Illinois Extension. ![]() Google added featured snippets sometime in 2014, and it’s not like the company doesn’t know about this problem. They’re officially called “featured snippets.” These answers are algorithmically generated from web pages that rank highly in the search results. According to MozCast, a tool that tracks the Google algorithm, almost 20 percent of queries - based on MozCast’s sample size of 10,000 - will attempt to return one true answer.īut a faster-growing number of quick answers, like the cake recipe and the Monty Python joke and the presidents supposedly in the Klan, are not as carefully curated. These are Google’s attempts to provide what Danny Sullivan, a journalist and founder of the blog SearchEngineLand, calls “the one true answer.” These answers are visually set apart, encased in a virtual box with a slight drop shadow. Type in “How to bake a cake?” and you’ll get a basic cake recipe. Type in “When is Mother’s Day” and you’ll get a date. Type in a word and you’ll get a box with a definition. ![]() Type in the name of a person and you’ll get a box with a photo and biographical data. Over the past five years, the company has been moving toward providing direct answers to questions along with its traditional list of relevant web pages. ![]() Google has long recognized that many people don’t want a research tool, however they want a quick answer. Users typed in what they were looking for and got a list of web pages that might contain the desired information. For most of its history, Google did not answer questions.
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