Is it actually common to seek information about news from a search engine? I find that kinda surprising.
I get news from outlets I'm already reasonably familiar with, so that I know how much to trust them, and what to trust them about.
It hadn't occurred to me that people might take apparently-factual information at face value when they find it via a search engine (without recognising the source site).
The whole point of a search engine is that it finds anything that any old person put on the internet, so why would anyone think a search engine is a reliable source of trustworthy assertions that accurately describe the real world?
Like, even in a physical library, just because a book is in the “factual” section doesn't mean that every assertion in the book is genuinely true — maybe it's out of date, or just plain wrong. All the library is asserting is that this book exists.
Twenty years ago people seemed to need to be told that, despite stuff on the internet being in written/printed form, that didn't automatically mean it was actually an authoritative newspaper. Have people forgotten that? Like, do people actually believe any old shite they read on the internet?
I get news from outlets I'm already reasonably familiar with, so that I know how much to trust them, and what to trust them about.
It hadn't occurred to me that people might take apparently-factual information at face value when they find it via a search engine (without recognising the source site).
The whole point of a search engine is that it finds anything that any old person put on the internet, so why would anyone think a search engine is a reliable source of trustworthy assertions that accurately describe the real world?
Like, even in a physical library, just because a book is in the “factual” section doesn't mean that every assertion in the book is genuinely true — maybe it's out of date, or just plain wrong. All the library is asserting is that this book exists.
Twenty years ago people seemed to need to be told that, despite stuff on the internet being in written/printed form, that didn't automatically mean it was actually an authoritative newspaper. Have people forgotten that? Like, do people actually believe any old shite they read on the internet?