{"id":7934,"date":"2020-04-03T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7934"},"modified":"2020-04-03T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:53:38","slug":"how-google-ruined-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7934","title":{"rendered":"How Google Ruined the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.superhighway98.com\/google\">Superhighway98<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rewarding stupidity and laziness leads to more stupidity and laziness<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Remember that story about the Polish dentist who pulled out all of her ex-boyfriend&#8217;s teeth in an act of revenge? It was complete and utter bullshit. 100% fabricated. No one knows who wrote it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Nevertheless, it was picked up by Fox News, the Los Angeles Times and many other publishers. That was eight years ago, yet when I search now for &#8220;dentist pulled ex boyfriends teeth,&#8221; I get a featured snippet that quotes ABC News&#8217; original, uncorrected story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Who invented the fidget spinner? Ask Google Assistant and it will tell you that Catherine Hettinger did: a conclusion based on poorly-reported stories from The Guardian, The New York Times and other major news outlets. Bloomberg&#8217;s Joshua Brustein clearly demonstrated that Ms. Hettinger did not invent the low friction toy. Nevertheless, ask Google Assistant &#8220;who really invented the fidget spinner?&#8221; and you&#8217;ll get the same answer: Catherine Hettinger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superhighway98: Rewarding stupidity and laziness leads to more stupidity and laziness Remember that story about the Polish dentist who pulled out all of her ex-boyfriend&#8217;s teeth in an act of revenge? It was complete and utter bullshit. 100% fabricated. No one knows who wrote it. Nevertheless, it was picked up by Fox News, the Los [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7935,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}