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Google Search erroneously showing safe air quality in areas with low air quality

2 pointsby faut_reflechiralmost 2 years ago
A search for<p>durham nc air quality forecast<p>yields a &quot;featured snippet&quot; from accuweather, saying (in its entirety):<p>&quot;The air quality is ideal for most individuals; enjoy your normal outdoor activities.&quot;<p>Presumably this is cached; actually clicking into Accuweather shows that the air quality is Unhealthy at 111 right now.<p>Posting here in case someone has a switch to turn off the featured snippets for air quality searches (with different search terms, there seems to be great tooling with Google Maps).

3 comments

dekhnalmost 2 years ago
I mean, the engineers who built the feature were promoted and moved on, so you can&#x27;t really expect it to keep working if the world changes and the model isn&#x27;t updating.
is_truealmost 2 years ago
I run a small service that provides info and every few weeks I got complaints from customers saying that the info is wrong because it doesn&#x27;t match Google&#x27;s.<p>The funny thing is that the problem is related to something else Google is doing, reducing the crawling budget.
logicalmonsteralmost 2 years ago
Wow. Health misinformation from Google? Oh no. No no no.