3 ms·
No, I suppose my point was more that people think that one of the features of Google search results is correctness, which is false. The main feature of Google s
by colemannugent 9y ago
No, I suppose my point was more that people think that one of the features of Google search results is correctness, which is false. The main feature of Google searches is that it shows you what it thinks you want to see.
The "product" here is the fast search engine that indexes a massive portion of all human knowledge and tries to provide you with results that are meaningful to you all within a quarter of a second. I don't think it is broken, I think it is a miracle that it works as well as it does.
Unfortunately, there is no algorithm to determine "the truth", mainly because there is no universal truth. This is a feature of the world we live in, though I suppose you could call it a bug if you think that there should be some kind of universal truth.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoIf nearly all of your users believe that your product delivers X, when it actually delivers Y, then your product is still broken.
- colemannugent 9y agoNo, your product is not broken. You have a marketing problem. You sold your product as something it was not and now you pay the price of lying to all your users.
- jedrek 9y agoI bought a car, when I turn the steering wheel left, the wheels turn right. Damn marketing!!!
- colemannugent 9y agoMore like, "This piece of software I don't understand did something I was not expecting, so now I'm upset that the software isn't actually what I thought it was and I want it changed".
- pavel_lishin 9y agoIf your software is actively presenting something as X, when it's actually Y, that's not a marketing issue. That's your software displaying erroneous data. That's a bug.
- jedrek 9y agoThere is explicit marketing and implied (historical, metaphorical, etc) behavior.