Source: Should search algorithms be moral? A conversation with Google’s in-house philosopher – Quartz
Google’s search engine—and that of Bing, DuckDuckGo, and most of the other tools out there—is indifferent to truth.
Indifference to the truth happens to be part of the established philosophical definition of bullshit. “Bullshit is grounded neither in a belief that it is true nor, as a lie must be, in a belief that it is not true,” wrote Princeton philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt in his seminal 1986 paper on communication theory, “On Bullshit.” “It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth—this indifference to how things really are—that I regard as of the essence of bullshit.”