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Online search could be set to change forever as Google changes the focus of its results from popularity to factual accuracy.A white paper this month outlined the company’s vision for Knowledge Based Trust algorithms which would compare search terms against their 1.6 billion fact Knowledge Vault for accuracy.The Knowledge Vault is a machine-built database of facts – the web-crawling software robots (generally known as bots, or specifically in Google’s case, Googlebots) which Google sends out to i
Although broadly defined, Google's new way of searching based on factual information rather than popularity may be a form of censorship. As the article explains, Google's automated bots will gain complete control over what is deemed factual and remove their current system of ranking by popularity. Popularity certainly has its problems, yet the issues that may be caused from an automated robot mis-reading may have larger issues when Google claims its information is a factual representation of a person or company.