Google search was created to help users find useful things information, highlighting quality content created by publishers. Access to reliable and useful information is what drives people to the Internet for information and publishers to invest in it.
However, with thousands of new articles being published on Internet every minute, every day, the amount of content that users are exposed to is enormous.
Unfortunately, not everything is true or real making it extremely difficult to distinguish between truth and lies. That's why last October, together with Google's partners at Jigsaw, the company announced that it would gradually enable publishers in some countries to display an "Information Verification" tag on its news listings. Google News . This tag is placed on articles, which include information that has been verified by publishers and agencies with whom we work and has been entrusted with this work.
After we evaluated them comments users and publishers, we decided to expand this feature. Now the "Check Information" tag on Google News is available everywhere, and at the same time, it has also been extended to the Search service in all languages. For the first time, when you do a search, listings that have been reviewed by a partner will appear distinctly at the top of the results page. The information will be displayed, who created it and whether a valid source has confirmed its authenticity.
This information will not be applicable or available in each entry and there will be search result pages where different publishers have checked the same claim and have reached different conclusions.
Of course, the information verifications are not ours and are presented so that users have a more up-to-date judgment. We are not sure we will always agree with them, but we think it is helpful for users to understand the degree of consensus or disagreement about a claim and to get clear information about which sources agree with each other. By making information verifications more visible in search results, we believe that users will be more likely to check and evaluate it, forming their own in-depth opinions.
In order for publishers to be included in this service, they must adopt the Schema.org ClaimReview markup, which they will use in the specific websites recorded and verified public statements (more information can be seen here) or use the cross-reference tool created by the Duke University Journalism Lab and Jigsaw.
Also, only publishers who are determined to follow the algorithm for the reliability of the information will qualify for membership.
Finally, the content must comply with the general policy applied to data markup, as well as the Google News Criteria and the standards of accountability and transparency, reading or distortion of information as published by Google in Google News General Guidelines section.
In the event that an issuer or a claim for the accuracy of an item of information does not have this specification or does not respect this policy, we may, in our opinion, ignore the labeling of this site.
This achievement would not be feasible without the help of other organizations and the Intelligence Identification Community, which now includes more 115 organizations. If you would like to know more about this new Google Search service, please visit it Consumer Help Center.
