• ‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?

    ‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?
    For decades now, anyone who’s wanted to know everything about anything has asked Google. But is the platform losing its edge – and can we still trust it to tell us the truth?I didn’t know I was dead until I saw it on Google. When I searched my name, there it was: a picture of my smiling face next to the text “Tom Faber was a physicist and publisher, and he was a university lecturer at Cambridge for 35 years”. Apparently I died on 27 July 2004, aged 77. This was news