Google unleashes a set of new features that help users verify information and find reliable sources within its search engine.
The technology giant aims to provide users with the tools to find and evaluate reliable information on the Internet, coinciding with the International Day for Verification of Information, which falls on the second of next April.
And Google announced the update of the “About This Result” feature, which provides additional information for search results, to be available soon in all languages in which the search engine is available. Users can access this feature by clicking the three dots next to most results, which helps them find out more information about the sites they visit.
And according to technical sites, a new feature called “Perspectives” will provide users with various viewpoints on the main stories that the user is searching for, by displaying the opinions of journalists and experts, through easy-to-browse cards that display views from websites and social network publications, and these will be launched The feature is initially in English in the US, with the goal of broadening users' understanding of news topics.
The “About This Author” feature, which is an expansion of the “About This Result” feature, will help users learn more about the content authors whose names appear in a Google search. This feature will be rolled out globally in English search results.
To improve access to information about a particular page, Google is making the About This Page feature more user-friendly. Users can type the link of any page into a Google search for quick access to information about the site.
Google search results will also display warnings that appear alongside some search results that contain false or incomplete information, or when the quality of search results is low. Google has previously introduced this feature to English-language search results, and will expand the feature to include search results in new languages.
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