Google Superroot (for search) has timeouts for the various sub-queries, which leads to non-determinism in search results, causing varying amounts of inaccuracy (and that's without things like failed spam detection, deliberate misinformation, link farming, etc.).
Misinformation has been around since writing was invented, and long before that I'm sure; humans seem to be only partially capable of detecting it. Computer-produced misinformation has a patina of authenticity, similar to the opinion pages of the WSJ, articles in The Economist, government notices, CBS news, and even articles in The New York Post or Breitbart.
Peter Ludemann
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