Google on Tuesday announced four search features that help users “quickly evaluate information” found online and get key context as it marks International Fact-Checking Day.
“To give more people access to these tools, we’ve expanded two features—About This Image and About This Page—to more than 40 languages around the world, including Portuguese,” the tech company said in a statement.
International Fact-Checking Day, on Tuesday 2 April, is a global initiative that recognizes the critical role of accurate information in an interconnected world.
One of the features announced by Google allows you to learn more about a website in the “Learn more about this page” section.
In other words, “you may recognize a lot of websites in the search results, but there may be others you don’t know about—and that you’d like to know more about,” and this feature “allows you to get context about a specific website before you click on it,” Google explains.
To do this, “simply click on the three dots next to the name of the “website” in the search results and click on the “More about this page” tab, providing information about the “online page”, such as how Wikipedia describes this (if available) and that , what other users on the network are saying about it,” he adds.
In this way, “the user will be able to make a more informed decision about a possible visit.” This functionality is available in more than 40 additional languages worldwide, including Portuguese.
Another feature allows you to find fact checks in the results. According to the technology, if you’re interested in a rumor you heard in a conversation, “independent fact-checking organizations may have already researched the topic.”
In other words, “we make it easy to find fact checks published by independent, trusted sources online,” so “if a fact check article is relevant to your search, a preview of it may appear in research results.”
Additionally, “these results will also display snippets that will help the user gain insight into a specific claim.”
Fact Check Explorer is another feature that “helps journalists and fact checkers dig deeper into a given topic,” and when researching a topic, they can easily find fact checks that have already been independently investigated by organizations around the world, he says.
From this point on, “you can use Fact Check Explorer to learn more about the image.”
Previously “only available in beta, this feature allows you to download or copy a link to an image in Fact Check Explorer to see if the same image has already been used in a fact check.”
Journalists and fact checkers “can also use it through the Fact Checking Tools API, which gives them the ability to show image-related fact checks in their own products and websites.”
The fourth feature concerns the “About This Image” section, which “offers a quick way to get more information and context about the images you see online.”
This allows you to get the history of the image, how other websites use and describe the image, and its metadata.
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