Why Google's recipe results are meaningless.
Meathead Goldwyn has some long-standing beef with Google. For the past nine years, the pitmaster and publisher of AmazingRibs.com—one of the internet’s leading authorities on all things barbecue—has warned against the tyranny of Google recipe rankings, which determine how and what millions of Americans cook. Among other things, Google’s algorithms decide which versions of canonical dishes get prime billing in its search results. The search engine cherry-picks and spotlights only the culinary data points it considers important in its “rich” result links and recipe carousels. Google...