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Could it be that some people who do know the identity of the victims are running searches with some type of pattern like "John Doe nightclub abuse ontario" and
by calbear81 9y ago
Could it be that some people who do know the identity of the victims are running searches with some type of pattern like "John Doe nightclub abuse ontario" and then clicking on the link to the reports about the case which Google then translates to relevant articles to "John Doe" in the future?
- cwmma 9y agoor it could be pages that mention the people link to the articles
- newman8r 9y agoI think you may be onto something, I just posted the same thing and then saw your comment
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoThis. Chatter on the public web gets scraped and a connection is inferred by some alogithm somewhere. However, what's an inside joke (or just sarcasm) to the in-ground might not be a joke to google. A link to a news story to the tune of "boy steals car and crashes it into river" is obviously a joke when introduced as "look it's $driver's son" in the context of $driver's performance at a formula off road event. Sarcasm on the internet is hard for people to read and harder for machines. While the overall percent of straight up sarcasm and jokes are probably pretty small there's probably a lot of other noise signals in there as well that reduce accuracy. When you start introducing data from other sources (IP addresses, geolocation, usage patterns) it gets very easy to spot correlations. I'd assume Google is very good at making these sort of connections out to a few degrees of separation.
- calbear81 9y agoMakes sense, especially if someone divulges this in the comments like "that happened to my friend's son John Doe - read about the terrible event here!"
- jlgaddis 9y agoIt could be. That's what two people quoted in TFA suggested.