The Ofcom report found that 32 per cent of 12- to 15-year-olds believed that search engines like Google measure “truthfulness” and display their results accordingly.
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Two paragraphs later is the other shoe, “More teenagers – 37 per cent – believe, correctly, that the search results are ranked on usefulness and relevance, while a small but cynical minority thought that the websites paid to be at the top of the list.”
Google ‘ranks websites by how true they are’, say UK children - Telegraph
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