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		pradn on Aug 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on p... Yes, totally. Automated, fallible systems. Ultimately it's a cost issue. If they wanted to, they could fact check the top million question queries - but they don't want to spend on that.

kevindamm on Aug 6, 2024 [–]

How familiar are you with the knowledge graph update process? There is actually a significant amount of spend going into reviewing the wrong answers to top queries and updating to fix/tweak them.

pradn on Aug 8, 2024 | [–]

Yes, there's humans in the loop for the knowledge graph. I'm unsure if snippets are reviewed in the same way.

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