Fact checking search results

Abstract

A fact checking system is able to verify the correctness of information and/or characterize information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. Fact checking results are able to be validated by re-fact checking the fact check results.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system comprising:
 one or more processors;   one or more storage media storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause:
 performing a search including searching for an inputted search string in search sources and returning search results grouped into relevance groups according to relevance; 
 fact checking the search by comparing each of the search results with source information to determine a factual accuracy of each of the search results, wherein fact checking affects the search results within a relevance group but does not cause a search result to be removed from the relevance group; 
 providing a combined result of the search and the fact checking. 
   
     
     
         2 . A method comprising:
 parsing web pages into fact checkable portions and comparing the fact checkable portions with source information to determine a factual accuracy of each of the web pages;   while performing a search, retrieving search results, wherein the search results comprise the fact checked web pages; and   causing the search results to be displayed based on the factual accuracy of each of the web pages;   wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.   
     
     
         3 . A system comprising:
 one or more processors;   one or more storage media storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause:
 receiving a search string to perform a search; 
 performing the search using the search string, the search including searching for the search string in one or more search sources; 
 obtaining search results associated with the search string based on the search; 
 automatically fact checking the search results by comparing each of the search results with source information from one or more sources to determine a factual accuracy of each of the search results and generating fact checking results based on the factual accuracy determined for the search results; 
 providing a combined result for the search string, wherein the combined result includes at least a portion of each of the search results and the fact checking results. 
   
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein the search results are grouped into relevance groups according to relevance. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein fact checking affects the search results within a relevance group but does not cause a search result to be removed from the relevance group. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein fact checking includes processing each of the search results by parsing each result of the search results. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein the combined result includes less accurate search results presented lower than more accurate search results. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein the combined result includes a search result without factual inaccuracies on top of a list of the search results. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein fact checking includes changing a position of a search result in a list of the search results if the search result has a number of factual inaccuracies above a threshold. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein the search and the fact checking are equally weighted. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein the search has a higher weighting than the fact checking. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein the search has a lower weighting than the fact checking. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein fact checking comprises determining bias of a search result. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein each source of the source information includes a reliability rating, wherein higher rated sources are used before lower rated sources, and sources below a threshold are not used. 
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 3 , further comprising automatically sending the combined result to a second device. 
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein the source information is ranked by popularity, and fact checking utilizes a most popular source information first and less popular source information in a descending order. 
     
     
         17 . The system of  claim 3 , wherein fact checking is performed using cloud computing.