Google will add "Truth check" to algorithm soon?

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Was just catching up on the news and came across this :

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/04/news/google-truth-ranking/index.html

Soon it seems, it might be best to keep a lot of "sensationalism" off the money pages and adding hard facts ...

So how would it work? The new algorithm draws on Google's "Knowledge Vault" -- a collection of 2.8 billion facts extracted from the Internet.
By checking pages against that database, and cross-referencing related facts, the research team believes the algorithm could assign each page a truth score. Pages with a high proportion of false claims would be bumped down in the search results.
Google said the new algorithm is in the research stage. The scientists still need to figure out plenty of issues before it can be used, including ensuring the system appropriately deals with new facts on a topic.
 
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