Thursday, November 15, 2018

Search in a Post Truth Era - Ray Schroeder, Inside Digital Education

The value of Google search increasingly is tarnished as more and more nefarious players have become sophisticated in promulgating their materials on sites that look more like places that we have come to trust. And, of course we are constantly combating sites that install malware and steal information from browsers. This has not gone unnoticed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Danny Hillis, SJ Klein and Travis Rich are developing Underlay -- a new knowledge base. As described at the MIT site, the concept of Underlay is to provide deeper citations of sources in order to better inform users https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/blogs/online-trending-now/search-post-truth-era