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Google Removes FAQ from Its Search Results Page

13 points| httpteapot | 2 years ago |developers.google.com

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zb3|2 years ago

Oh, so Google search is about to get even worse. But that's good, the sooner the better.

NoZebra120vClip|2 years ago

No, I think this is a good thing.

Google's "quick results" which are supposed to help searchers before we navigate away, have been plagued with misinformation and threat actors attempting to game the results. A lot of it was ganked from Wikipedia directly, fraught with peril in the usual ways.

If Google limits these answers to Gov-based bodies, then more searchers will navigate away to the pages they searched for. Even if these are low-quality results, at least the provenance of answers will be apparent.