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Can others confirm/deny this: Google this, no quotes: snopes Skincential Sciences CIA Then duckduckgo the same, no quotes. Did anyone else get disturbingly l
by daveguy 11y ago
Can others confirm/deny this:
Google this, no quotes: snopes Skincential Sciences CIA
Then duckduckgo the same, no quotes.
Did anyone else get disturbingly little response from google, but very detailed and recent results from duckduckgo?
I searched this precisely because I was skeptical, but that search result was just weird.
EDIT: For me it happens both in regular, tracked search and in an incognito tab.
EDIT2: Dropping snopes gives a regular result from google and searching just snopes does too. I think google's ML initiative may not be working out as well as they hoped.
- ced 11y agoThe DDG results are about snopes, or Skincential Sciences CIA, but not both. If you remove snopes, the Google results look fine to me.
- daveguy 11y agoThanks for the confirm. Maybe someone at google listened to people complaining (or their algos learned) that when people search many specific words they are looking for a specific thing and not to randomly drop it. Also, as a side note (not directly to you but so I don't clutter the feed). The CIA does not have a "venture capital arm". The company in question is a private company, who's purpose is to develop intel tech and sell it to the CIA. They are not associated with the CIA in any official capacity, but they do seem to have a cozy relationship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel Edit: Also, on duckduckgo the first two results I get are specific to both this story about skincential and the cia.
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- lucaspiller 11y ago> The CIA does not have a "venture capital arm". Plot twist... YCombinator is the venture capital arm of the CIA /s
- joering2 11y agoOr perhaps, you know, something to do with Google being funded by branch of CIA?