Why You Can’t Always Trust the ‘Best’ Search Results

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

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🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Searching the web for the best products to buy can be tough, thanks to sponsored posts and fishy reviews. WSJ reporter Andrea Fuller joins host Cordilia James to explain what happened after her family almost fell for some clever marketing when searching Google for vacuums this holiday season, and what shoppers should look out for online. Plus, WSJ housing reporter Will Parker tells us why the city of Atlanta is pushing back against tech companies’ plans to build more data centers. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Sunday, old rivals go head to head as Liverpool take on Manchester United at Anfield.
0:07.4	Can you believe it?
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0:14.9	Absolutely brilliant.
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0:33.7	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, January 3rd.
0:40.3	I'm Cordelia James for the Wall Street Journal. The space to build data centers to support artificial intelligence is limited, and everyone wants a piece.
0:47.3	WSJ housing reporter Will Parker tells us why major tech companies have their sites set on Atlanta and why the city is pushing back.
0:57.3	And then, it's getting harder to tell which reviews online are good and which ones are too good to be true.
1:04.8	WSJ reporter Andrea Fuller went down a rabbit hole of questionable online product rankings,
1:14.6	and she tells us what to look out for so you don't fall for phony reviews.
1:23.6	But first, data centers provide the computing power needed for the AI boom. But the amount of space available to build them is in short supply. Big tech companies,
1:29.3	including meta, Google, Microsoft, and X have turned to Atlanta to build bigger, more powerful
1:35.3	facilities. Data Center construction is growing faster in Atlanta than in just about any other
1:41.1	major city. Now, though, Atlanta residents and lawmakers are pushing back.
1:46.5	For more on this, we're joined by WSJ Housing Reporter, Will Parker.
1:50.7	Well, why do real estate developers have their sites set on Atlanta?
1:54.7	Atlanta's gotten really popular for data centers for a few reasons.
1:58.0	It's got cheap land and cheap electricity, and it's got fiber optic,
2:05.7	internet connectivity that's some of the best in the country. And those are the places that
2:11.3	real estate companies that are putting up these warehouses essentially for large computing
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