The explanation is quite simple: all green plant cells contain chloroplasts, and chloroplasts are technically symbiotic algae.
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If we use the widest definition of ‘algae’ to include cyanobacteria as well, yes.
It turned me into a newt!
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I got better.
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Reject plant, return to algae
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So, Single-leaf pinyon pine (along with many other Pinus) is apparently an alga but its congener, Colorado pinyon pine, apparently is not. There seems to be little or no consistency which makes this even stranger.
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I guess Google has joined the Misinformation Age where facts are malleable and what you want them to be.
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Classic Google, finally catching up with the rest of the internet.
Algae nation unite!
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It’s the great am-alga-mation.
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Oh hey it’s fixed now!
I checked this morning and they were still algae. Now they’re all plants again. Rejoice! The plants are no longer a lie 
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lets go!
I am still left wondering what happened inside Google… also my thanks to Bob McDougall for the laugh. Circular but then again no…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/z6jz1w/google_currently_thinks_all_plants_are_algae/
I wonder, if Google (Alphabet) will say something?
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I bet someone really caught some, uh, flack from their mom!!!
At least we (and reddit) had a lot of fun with this, ya’ll are hilarious!!
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Anyone who is even vaguely familiar with the differences in reproductive method in vascular plant clades would never dream of labelling them all as ‘Algae’, proof that Google provides ample information, unfortunately without any context
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