Does this woman look like a Quaker who died in the 19th century? Probably not. But Google thinks so. Here’s the story.

This is Ruth Wakefield, credited with inventing chocolate chip cookies.

She appeared in a 2013 blog post by Lesley Voth on women inventors.

Voth also wrote about Tabitha Babbitt, who is credited with inventing the circular saw. There are no known photos of Babbitt, so Voth used a picture of a circular saw blade.

Then something amazing happened. All the spam websites the scrape the internet identified Ruth Wakefield as Tabitha Babbitt.

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