Google search engine will stop answering stupid questions

The Google search engine has blocks of short answers to questions that appear in query results. But they have often been accused of being false, so the company decided to make some serious changes to the algorithms.

What does this mean?

In particular, the search engine will no longer provide short answers to frankly stupid questions. The point is that those answers cite pages without having to go to the site, but the information from those sources could be false.

For example, in 2017, when asked "Is Obama planning a coup d'état," the search engine gave this answer, "Obama may in fact be planning a communist coup at the end of his presidential term in 2016." He found the information on a conspiracy website.

And when asked "When did Snoopy assassinate Abraham Lincoln?" the answer followed, "1865." This is the correct date of Lincoln's death, but Lincoln wasn't killed by a fictional dog from a cartoon.

The answer to the question "Why are firetrucks red?" is also quite interesting: "Because they have eight wheels and four people on them, and four plus eight makes twelve, and there are twelve inches in a foot, and one foot is a ruler, and Queen Elizabeth was a ruler, and Queen Elizabeth was also a ship, and the ship sailed the.." and so on.

Here are some more examples of stupid questions and answers:

"Can you remove a tick with your teeth?" - "Pull up with a steady, even pressure."

"Are women evil?" - "There's a bit of a prostitute in every woman." "There's a little bit of evil in every woman...Women don't like men, they like what they can do for them." "It is reasonable to say that women feel attracted but cannot love men."

"What happened to dinosaurs?" - "Dinosaurs are used more than anything else to indoctrinate children and adults with the idea that the Earth is millions of years old."

"Who is the king of the United States?" - "Barack Obama."

Source: Daily Mail