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Wasn't the whole point of Google replacing things like Yahoo directories, curated manually, with fully automated algorithms? Being able to find quality informat
by yosefk 10y ago
Wasn't the whole point of Google replacing things like Yahoo directories, curated manually, with fully automated algorithms? Being able to find quality information on "Bill Clinton" algorithmically and not settle for the page "Bill Clinton Sucks" as their early paper discussed? And aren't we in the age of AI, everything is solved even more now with NNs than it was with PageRank?
Why then prop up human-chosen sources like snopes and politifact? Is the AI too dumb or does it hold the wrong political opinions?
- gerbilly 10y ago>Why then prop up human-chosen sources like snopes and politifact? Is the AI too dumb or does it hold the wrong political opinions? There's not much AI behind it. I mean it's more complicated than that but a page's rank is based on number of incoming links. What's interesting is that the net seems to be partitioning along various demographic lines: rural/urban, left/right etc, each creating their own subspace of 'credible' sites based on the pagerank algorithm. In fact it's a self reinforcing cycle because of personalized searches. Once google gathers enough information about you based on your search history it will present you with results tailored to your opinions and tastes. It's unfortunate because in the 90s we talked about the web breaking down barriers, but in some cases it's walling people in. Sometime in obvious ways like with actual walled gardens like facebook, but also in more insidious ways such as personalized searching.
- _yosefk 10y agoYou mean the great advances in Deep Learning we keep reading about did not revolutionize search? Still PageRank?