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I recently cursed google search results when trying to research an actor's birth date. There were two dates given on Wikipedia and I wanted to see which one (if either) was correct. Google returned the actor's IMDB page (which listed a third date, and no source), and then pages upon pages of what appeared to be auto-generated sites that clearly scraped from Wikipedia, repeating one or the other of the Wikipedia dates.

This is not helping to organize the world's knowledge.



> This is not helping to organize the world's knowledge.

And Google is not about organizing world's knowledge but creeping on people for YoY financial results.


They're quoting Google's own mission statement; though, you are correct.

> Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.


A lot of actors lie about their age so I wouldn't hold out too much hope on getting an accurate result on that one.

I get your point though about the multiple results for something where there clearly is no authoritative answer.


> This is not helping to organize the world's knowledge.

Oh they stopped doing that long long ago...




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