Is Google Ever Wrong?

[*Hootie]

You can find out anything on Google these days. But is their information always correct? I am not talking about opinion related questions, but historical and factual based questions. Have you ever found errors? I just asked, what is the earliest and latest days Easter can fall on. So just wondering what you guys think. Are they always right.

Hootie

[Maico1]

I like this......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

[BrianinMD]

All as right as the humans who entered the information.

[Root beer]

You can find out anything on Google these days. But is their information always correct? I am not talking about opinion related questions, but historical and factual based questions. Have you ever found errors? I just asked, what is the earliest and latest days Easter can fall on. So just wondering what you guys think. Are they always right.

Hootie

 

Google doesn't spit out an answer, it just points you toward websites that may have the answer. And depending on that website, it could be fictional or factual. 

 

Edit: Which is why in college we had to use multiple sources to back up our finding. Wikipedia was guaranteed a huge loss in points. 

[Hyrule Bass]

You can find out anything on Google these days. But is their information always correct? I am not talking about opinion related questions, but historical and factual based questions. Have you ever found errors? I just asked, what is the earliest and latest days Easter can fall on. So just wondering what you guys think. Are they always right.

Hootie

 

a google search doesnt give you direct answers. it gives you links to web pages that may contain the answer or information youre looking for. some web pages may be right, some may be wrong...

[flyfisher]

Google doesn't spit out an answer, it just points you toward websites that may have the answer. And depending on that website, it could be fictional or factual. 

 

Edit: Which is why in college we had to use multiple sources to back up our finding. Wikipedia was guaranteed a huge loss in points. 

In most academic classes Wikipedia is not even considered a source.  Now i have used wikipedia and then looked at the sources for their articles and used them and found some good info.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

In most academic classes Wikipedia is not even considered a source.  Now i have used wikipedia and then looked at the sources for their articles and used them and found some good info.

Wikipedia tells lies. My buddy and I added that Mickey Mouse was originally voiced by Charles Manson, and that Minnie Mouse was voiced originally by Squeaky Fromme. To the Mickey Mouse article on there. It stayed up for three months before it was finally removed. Minnies catch phrase wasnt supposed to be the laugh she does. She was supposed to say, "Remember kids, Charlie loves you."

[RAMBLER]

They can't put anything on the internet that isn't true, can they?    

[Root beer]

a google search doesnt give you direct answers. it gives you links to web pages that may contain the answer or information youre looking for. some web pages may be right, some may be wrong...

 

Thank for this redundancy. 

[crankcaster100]

Didn't Abraham Lincoln famously say that you can't believe everything on the Internet?

[SirSnookalot]

Sure I've seen information that isn't 100% correct.

Something I found quite intriguing, Google maps shows a pond (same pond on Bing maps too), for several years the pond wasn't there.  About 8 months ago the pond was dug and the shape is exactly the same as it was on Google maps.

[Jar11591]

Hootie, you should google it.