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Featured Snippets and Information Failure

Geoff Riley

19th November 2017

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How much do you trust your search engine? The WSJ investigates the accuracy of the Google Featured Snippet to consider how algorithms are -- and aren't -- working. Students should beware!

Featured Snippets and Information Failure
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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