Google's Algorithm Is Lying to You About Onions and Blaming Me for It
https://gizmodo.com/googles-algorithm-is-lying-to-you-about-onions-and-blam-1793057789 [gizmodo.com]
2017-03-08 20:03
Not only does Google, the world’s preeminent index of information, tell its users that caramelizing onions takes “about 5 minutes”—it pulls that information from an article whose entire point was to tell people exactly the opposite. A block of text from the Times that I had published as a quote, to illustrate how it was a lie, had been extracted by the algorithm as the authoritative truth on the subject.
Teaching the controversy. The danger of refuting misinformation is Google only wants to read the first half of any article.
UPDATE: At some point after this post was published, Google stopped promoting “about 5 minutes” as the correct answer
Manual process at work?
source: DF