If anyone is wondering how google is doing, it is giving incorrect answers to the query “How old is the Universe?”

Instead of serving up scientific consensus (just shy of 14 billion years) it is latching onto recent media coverage of a questionable study (tired light, time-dependent coupling constants) claiming a much larger figure.

Notably, it gives me the right answer from an incognito window. But elevating popularity metrics over scientific consensus is a real problem!

@mcnees this is a problem? So you’re telling me the iPhone that was powered on at the birth of the universe doesn’t have an internal digital list that would include the date on which the first battery was inserted and it was powered on? This seems so simple. I swear I heard Ted Cruz make a reference to this a few days ago…