For International Fact-Checking Day, the Google has released new search features that can help you quickly evaluate information to understand what you see online.
The company expanded two features — About this image and About this page — to 40 additional languages worldwide.
About this page
You may recognize many websites in your search results, but there are others that you don't. The “About this page” feature allows you to get content about a website before you click.
Just click the three dots next to a website in the search results and tap on the “more about this page” tab. It will display information about the site, as described by Wikipedia (if available) and what others on the web have said about it. With more information about the site, you can decide whether to visit it.
Easily find fact checks in the results
Curious about a rumor you heard in a group chat? Independent fact checking organizations may have already looked into the fact. Google makes it easy to find fact checks published by independent, authoritative sources on the web. If there is a data audit article relevant to your query, you will see a preview appear in your search results.
Dig deeper with Fact Check Explorer
Fact Check Explorer helps journalists and anyone interested in digging deeper into a topic. When you search for a topic, you can easily find audits that have been investigated by independent organizations from around the world. You can now use the Fact Check Explorer to learn more about an image. Fact Check Explorer will tell you if it has been used and where.
The About this image feature gives you a quick way to check the background and context of images you see online. Just click the three dots next to an image in Google Images results to access the new tool.
