> Google will never believe what authors use for meta data. Then why trust the s... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		rightbyte on June 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's AI doesn't understand restaurant menus > Google will never believe what authors use for meta data. Then why trust the site at all if it fakes metadata? This fuzzy we-know-better algorithms has wrecked Google search.

lmm on June 12, 2022 | [–]

The whole web runs on the principle of taking crazy tag soup and extracting as much as you can out of it. I wish XHTML had succeeded but the market has spoken.

mitchdoogle on June 12, 2022 | [–]

Chances are the restaurant doesn't want to mislead people looking at their website. After all, that will just lead to disappointment and lost revenue.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact