Google Gripes

Optimizing for the search giant has made the web a boring place

Hey all, Parker here.

Over at Nieman Lab, the great Joshua Benton flagged a study published last month in Nature about what happens when you tell people to Google false claims.

Media literacy proponents often advocate doing your own research — emphasis on the search, since Google is typically Tool No. 1 here — as a weapon against misinformation. Search ho…