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Our discussion was never about the term factuality. You've just now raised that term for the first time in this discussion. You said search engine. They are in fact searching and reconstructing data based on a probabilistic data space.
...and there are plenty of examples of search engines being sued for the types of data they've explored or digitized.
...also the inference that search engines are "accurate" or don't serve up misinformation, and manipulated data is foolish.