Ahead Of International Fact Check Day, Google Launches New Tool To Help Journalists And Society

JAKARTA - Previously, Google had launched a new feature that would allow users to find out more about the information they were looking for in Google's search.

"To help the public evaluate information and understand its origins, we provide a feature About this result' in Indonesia," Google wrote in a statement received in Jakarta on Friday, March 31.

Either when you do a search in English or Indonesian, you will see a three-dot symbol next to most of the results in Google Search.

By tapping on those three dots, you can learn more about the origin of the information you see and how our system considers it useful for your query.

Another new tool is Pinpoint, a research tool to help journalists and academics explore and analyze large collections of documents.

With this tool, you can upload and browse hundreds of thousands of documents, images, emails, handwritten records, and audio files to search for words or phrases, locations, organizations, and certain people.

You can also collaborate by sharing access to your collection, highlighting text, and sharing links to certain documents or text selections.

"Pinpoint can help you use text, audio, and video files by providing optical character recognition (OCR) features, transcription, search, and entity recognition (persons, organizations, and locations)," Google added.

Actually, Pinpoint was launched in 2020 as part of the Journalist Studio, and now Pinpoint is available in various languages.