this is an interesting head scratcher from the third episode of the third season of silicon valley in it the ceo of hooli, a standin for all sv bigcorps, compl

this is an interesting head scratcher from the third episode of the third season of silicon valley in it the ceo of hooli, a standin for all sv bigcorps, complains that hooli search's first result for his name is bad press on him he says he wants his engineers to change it to good press they respond, 'are you asking us to modify the underlying algorithm? that would be unethical' the ceo agrees, 'that would be unethical, and that is why i would never ask any hooli engineer to compromise the integrity of our underlying algorithm' and then goes and asks another division to 'exploit' the algorithm by creating a swarm of referral links to positive press on him what's interesting here is this requirement to retain the integrity of the algorithm completely ignores the fact that the algorithm is itself flawed and easily exploited a similar problem to google search is youtube's current issues with dmca