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> No, they don't. They attempt to figure out which site you might be looking for based on the terms you typed in; relevance to your search terms may or may not
by mentat 11y ago
> No, they don't. They attempt to figure out which site you might be looking for based on the terms you typed in; relevance to your search terms may or may not be correlated with veracity.
Can you give an example of a search where relevance doesn't correlate with a common cultural sense of veracity? I think they're more intertwined than you seem to be willing to concede.
- JoshTriplett 11y ago> Can you give an example of a search where relevance doesn't correlate with a common cultural sense of veracity? If I search for "Bob Smith", I'm not looking for "pages with exclusively true statements about Bob Smith"; I'm looking for 'pages that mention the phrase "Bob Smith"'. Perhaps someone mentioned a great story whose protagonist was named Bob Smith, and I wanted to find it. Perhaps someone wrote an article entitled 'Naming your programming language "Go" is like naming your kid "Bob Smith"'. Perhaps I'm trying to find a comment on a news site that used "Bob Smith" as an example name. If you run "grep" over a set of files, and one of the results makes you angry, do you blame grep, or whoever wrote the file grep found? Does the answer somehow change if you use a more sophisticated search algorithm (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tf–idf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tf–idf)?