​Google handles 90% of the world's internet searches, and it increasingly is promoting a single answer for many questions. Even subjective or unanswerable queries sometimes get seemingly definitive answers. Here's how the algorithms are -- and aren't -- working. Video/Photo Illustration: Heather Seidel/The Wall Street JournalGoogle unveiled a three-year, $300 million commitment to help news organizations adapt to the digital age, the search giant’s latest olive branch to a publishing industry that has been critical of its dominance over information and digital advertising. In New York on Tuesday, the company announced the launch of the Google News Initiative, which it says is designed to help news organizations strengthen quality journalism, develop new business models and upgrade their technology.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 20, 2018 15:11 UTC