{"id":4198,"date":"2022-08-13T18:47:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2022-08-13T18:47:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T12:47:40","slug":"google-plays-smart-with-plan-to-stop-answering-silly-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/tech\/2022\/08\/13\/news\/4198\/","title":{"rendered":"Google plays smart with plan to stop answering \u2018silly questions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4199\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/g_sign-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Google sign is pictured outside the Google office in Berlin, Germany, August 31, 2021. (REUTERS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON, Broadcasting News Corporation : In a move designed to improve its search engine\u2019s \u201cfeatured snippets\u201d service, Google announced on Thursday that it will stop answering users\u2019 \u201csilly questions.\u201d<br \/>\nA user who asks Google, \u201cWhen did Snoopy assassinate Abraham Lincoln?\u201d for example, would receive a fairly detailed response, explaining the location, date and time of assassination, the target and even the type of attack. However, while the information provided is correct, quite obviously the question makes no sense. \u201cThis clearly isn\u2019t the most helpful way to display this result,\u201d Google\u2019s head of search, Pandu Nayak, said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019ve trained our systems to get better at detecting these sorts of false premises, which are not very common, but there are cases where it\u2019s not helpful to show a featured snippet. We\u2019ve reduced the triggering of featured snippets in these cases by 40 percent with this update,\u201d he added. The upgrade aims to address a problem that has long posed problems for Google. In 2017, the tech giant came under fire for allegedly disseminating fake news after a highlighted snippet for the question \u201cIs Obama planning a coup?\u201d led to its voice assistant jokingly telling users: \u201cObama may, in fact, be preparing a communist coup d\u2019etat at the end of his term in 2016.\u201d The snippet, which was automatically generated, was taken from a conspiracy theory website. To avoid this kind of situation, Google\u2019s search engine revamp is intended to improve replies\u2019 accuracy and sidestep queries for which there is no clear-cut right or wrong response. Google will also introduce an \u201cabout this result\u201d option and alert users in case of low-quality data. \u201cThis doesn\u2019t mean that no helpful information is available, or that a particular result is low-quality,\u201d Nayak said. \u201cThese notices provide context about the whole set of results on the page, and you can always see the results for your query, even when the advisory is present.\u201d So, next time you ask Google: \u201cHow do you get in touch with the Illuminati?\u201d expect something more helpful than, \u201cWant to get rich? Apply today and join the Illuminati!\u201d News collected from ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Broadcasting News Corporation : In a move designed to improve its search engine\u2019s \u201cfeatured snippets\u201d service, Google announced on Thursday that it will stop answering users\u2019 \u201csilly questions.\u201d A user who asks Google, \u201cWhen did Snoopy assassinate Abraham Lincoln?\u201d for example, would receive a fairly detailed response, explaining the location, date and time of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}