Search Engines: Inaccuracy in Basic Information

From: Nathanael Allison (jubungalord@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 02:07:55 MDT

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    I recently searched for just basic world statistics on the net. I searched
    for things like land mass, dollars per person (GNP), and population for
    countries. I found that there were major differences in basic numbers. For
    instance in the top 5 countries for land mass I came across 3 different
    orders. Economy statistics were different on the 5 different sites I checked
    out.

    What can be done about this? Is there programs that could either change the
    info or tell the page/page owner that the info is wrong. Is this something
    that will be around until AI can deal with it?

    Why do search engines work so screwed up? I just know basic programming
    could someone explain to me why there are all these problems?

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