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So this all hinges on a deleted story being removed from search results too quickly? Google crawls some sites (especially high-traffic news sites like Forbes) m
by joefkelley 9y ago
So this all hinges on a deleted story being removed from search results too quickly? Google crawls some sites (especially high-traffic news sites like Forbes) more frequently than others. And why should a deleted article still show up in search results? It's entirely plausible to me that there was no manual intervention.
Perhaps it's questionable that Google wanted the article taken down in the first place. It's hard to know the legitimacy of that request without knowing the specifics of any NDAs applicable to the meeting. But at the least, the article would damage the relationship between those two groups at those two companies.
- owebmaster 9y ago> It's entirely plausible to me that there was no manual intervention. No manual intervention doesn't mean that the algorithm was not planned to work in a criminal way.
- gaius 9y agoRight. It is well established that turning over decision making to an algo that you wrote doesn't absolve you of responsibility for those decisions.
- owebmaster 9y agoI don't know if I'm being downvoted by the ones who think like you or the ones who agree with OP.
- gaius 9y agoI didn't downvote you, unless I fatfingered it on my phone!
- Natsu 9y agoI wouldn't say that. It seems to revolve around being pushed into pulling a story about something Google was doing. The fact that it vanished from cache is just an anomaly they noticed. I don't see the wrongness of this as revolving around whether or not their actions were technically legal or not, though.