To mark the event of UNESCO related to Global Media and Information Literacy, we are here to announce how search engine giant Google is ready to expand some of its features in this regard.
The changes would be solely for those people in Europe as confirmed by the firm recently and can include expansions for ‘About this Result’ highlighted for its search panels. Similarly, there’s going to be a new digital education feature that combines European libraries with all others.
For starters, Google has spoken about rolling out the ‘About this Result’ in a few new languages like French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Italian. As the firm mentioned in a recent blog post, users can now benefit from clicking on three dots and that would cause the pop-up of a result and what that source may be. This entails reviews with descriptions of the content and some notes that highlight more insight on the matter.
This was first rolled out in places like the US in 2021 and slowly, we’re seeing the firm refine it more and add some more additions to it. Users from Europe are also going to be getting access to further spread of misleading data through Google Search.
In the same way, Google would be seen working on things like digital literacy and a new initiative that collaborates with the likes of European libraries and staff members designed to get the best of such practices through literary experts in the industry.
Google is also planning on a rollout of its Super Searcher initiative in the continent where so many libraries and their respective staff members would undergo training to get the best skillset from professionals. This would entail ways to utilize tools such as About to better evaluate details online.
Google hopes that this would allow for better training of staff members so library patrons can benefit and strengthen their literacy skills. And that’s a huge step toward bringing up digital literacy in a broader aspect. It’s also a mega skill that needs to be seen in various school curriculums.
Several schools are now going the extra mile to give users information on safety elements and features but they are still lacking in giving details linked to matters like misinformation, despite it being a leading problem in today’s day and age.
Users need to be able to better examine various forms of web content to see how trustworthy it really is. Hence, a lot of the regions are moving in that particular direction. Did you know that nations like Finland actually have this as a part of their curriculum? They want people to know what is authentic and what’s not on the web and how you can trust a source and rid of misinformation easily. This is what has assisted the country in reaching the top in terms of resiliency to better combat issues linked to misinformation.
Remember, this is definitely younger users but the real challenge lies with those that are much older. These are the ones who are more likely to have false reports spread with time. And that’s why such a program is so important in today’s day and age. It’s like a direct lesson for those older patrons that are fond of paying libraries in Europe a routinely visit.
We are definitely all praise for such steps as they’re designed to help people more than anything else. For now, the leading tech company is launching the feature in the next few months to around 12 different nations in Europe.
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The changes would be solely for those people in Europe as confirmed by the firm recently and can include expansions for ‘About this Result’ highlighted for its search panels. Similarly, there’s going to be a new digital education feature that combines European libraries with all others.
For starters, Google has spoken about rolling out the ‘About this Result’ in a few new languages like French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Italian. As the firm mentioned in a recent blog post, users can now benefit from clicking on three dots and that would cause the pop-up of a result and what that source may be. This entails reviews with descriptions of the content and some notes that highlight more insight on the matter.
This was first rolled out in places like the US in 2021 and slowly, we’re seeing the firm refine it more and add some more additions to it. Users from Europe are also going to be getting access to further spread of misleading data through Google Search.
In the same way, Google would be seen working on things like digital literacy and a new initiative that collaborates with the likes of European libraries and staff members designed to get the best of such practices through literary experts in the industry.
Google is also planning on a rollout of its Super Searcher initiative in the continent where so many libraries and their respective staff members would undergo training to get the best skillset from professionals. This would entail ways to utilize tools such as About to better evaluate details online.
Google hopes that this would allow for better training of staff members so library patrons can benefit and strengthen their literacy skills. And that’s a huge step toward bringing up digital literacy in a broader aspect. It’s also a mega skill that needs to be seen in various school curriculums.
Several schools are now going the extra mile to give users information on safety elements and features but they are still lacking in giving details linked to matters like misinformation, despite it being a leading problem in today’s day and age.
Users need to be able to better examine various forms of web content to see how trustworthy it really is. Hence, a lot of the regions are moving in that particular direction. Did you know that nations like Finland actually have this as a part of their curriculum? They want people to know what is authentic and what’s not on the web and how you can trust a source and rid of misinformation easily. This is what has assisted the country in reaching the top in terms of resiliency to better combat issues linked to misinformation.
Remember, this is definitely younger users but the real challenge lies with those that are much older. These are the ones who are more likely to have false reports spread with time. And that’s why such a program is so important in today’s day and age. It’s like a direct lesson for those older patrons that are fond of paying libraries in Europe a routinely visit.
We are definitely all praise for such steps as they’re designed to help people more than anything else. For now, the leading tech company is launching the feature in the next few months to around 12 different nations in Europe.
Read next: Google is working on bringing many new features to Workspace but it is for premium users only
