How Google's featured answers can go terribly wrong

Why Google search once said Obama was a king and dinosaurs weren’t real.

A previous version of this video neglected to credit The Outline for some of the information in this video. You should read The Outline's work on this topic here: https://theoutline.com/post/1192/goog...

For much much more on this topic, you also can read Danny Sullivan and Eric Enge at searchengineland.com, who answered many of our questions about featured snippets.

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