A Google research team is adapting that model to measure the trustworthiness of a page, rather than its reputation across the web. Instead of counting incoming links, the system – which is not yet live – counts the number of incorrect facts within a page. “A source that has few false facts is considered to be trustworthy,” says the team (arxiv.org/abs/1502.03519v1). The score they compute for each page is its Knowledge-Based Trust score.
From Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links – 28 February 2015 – New Scientist
Rank websites based on facts?
Rank websites based on facts? Who is the judge?
No doubt, for example, the American Library Association will claim my blogs contain no facts, so my blogs will effectively disappear. Heck it’s already involved in lawsuits to silence me so what’s one more means to harass and silence me? No, ALA never promotes child porn and librarians are never sexually harassed by porn-viewing patrons, right?
Yeah, that’s a microscopic example, but this could be a major means to wholesale eliminate from visibility on the web anything that’s not politically correct. Deny global warming is manmade? Your site is not factual. Religion can cure people of homosexuality? Your site is not only not factual but dangerous. Common Core is dangerous? Uh uh, not factual. Bye, Bye!
So jigger the query results and instant, invisible, essentially censorship occurs.
This is not good.
I’ve got the paper
I’ve not even glanced at the referenced paper from arXiv yet. I’ve been very, very busy with things going horribly wrong. Some co-workers are getting borderline mutinous at work and that’s not helping. The state of crisis at work is not helping have life outside work either even though my telephone ready reference skills are getting sharpened.