In Determining Truthfulness, a Google Team Would Like to Do Your Thinking for You

New Scientist reports on a paper by a Google team, "Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources." Coming from a company with a sizable and voluble contingent of progressives in its work force, the proposal sounds like a nightmare for politically incorrect Web sources:

The Internet is stuffed with garbage. Anti-vaccination websites make the front page of Google, and fact-free "news" stories spread like wildfire. Google has devised a fix -- rank websites according to th...