It’s google’s job to return results when users search, not to verify the claims made in found content. If google search results show you someone else’s lie, thats the liar’s fault, not google’s, and they should not be held accountable. It’s ultimately up to the users themselves to distinguish truth from lies, surely, the onus must lay on the reader, not the indexing software.
> He said a new feature added to YouTube last year that enables some users to add contextual notes to videos "has significant potential." (That program is similar to X's Community Notes feature, as well as new program announced by Meta last week.)<p>It's hard to imagine this isn't what ultimately happens. It seems to be a tall order for an EU court to compel speech from an American company in a political sense. In this case, Google can and I believe will stop offering youtube in the EU until the EU says that Google's proposed "fact-checking" system is Good Enough.<p>(Not to mention how gross it feels to insist that someone has not stated the correct facts and must do so or face a penalty.)
How, in practice, would you even go about fact checking every we page for ranking? Judging by my own observations of their Ai search results they certainly can't do it with that, it will confidently lie a huge portion of the time