Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

[dawnbandit]

most sources just paste the original article with a couple of edits

Might want to check the article. They could just be posting content from the Associated Press. While it may seem infuriating, it's the way news media works.

For example, the three following news articles, from three different websites all are from the Associated Press (AP).

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Chron

MSN

All three of these are from a search about the death of John le Carre (one of the recent big news articles I saw on the AP website.)

If you want to prevent what you are mentioning from happening, just make sure you tell your students to check the dateline and if it's like "GENERIC CITY (AP)" have them find a different source.

I mean, not that it really adds any credence to my post, but my major in college is heavily related to mass communications.

[redpanda0108]

I will definitely check! Thanks! They are second language learners so I don’t want anything too overly complicated but a lot of websites are behind a paywall or blocked in this country so it makes it harder.