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How a Monday Night Football mishap may have exposed deep problems with Google Search

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Google searches on Monday night resulted in faulty information about the NFL 's onside kick rules.

The confusion was sparked by an unfortunate turn of events.

Viewers thought the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were putting a star player's health at risk in a hopeless situation.

In reality, NFL rules allow the Buccaneers to keep trying late-game kicks aimed at recovering the ball.

In total, it stands to reason that folks should double check anything they Google . So yes, the rules of an NFL game aren't terribly important in the grand scheme of things. But the ease with which bad information can spread via Google is much bigger than anything that happened between the Bucs and Ravens ..

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