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There isn't just a risk of picking up biases -- there is an absolute guarantee that biases exist and always will. In a sense that's the whole goal when giving

by tux1968 9y ago

There isn't just a risk of picking up biases -- there is an absolute guarantee that biases exist and always will. In a sense that's the whole goal when giving _relevant_ results. The idea is to return information biased towards interesting and useful results. I wish Google wasn't biased against the restaurant around the corner from me when I search for "The Trumpet", but it is. That's as it should be of course, since the audience for that result is so small. All we're really talking about is a project that will never be completed of tailoring search results for the largest audience possible -- which is inherently a moving target. Doing it manually as you suggest is likely hopeless and more politically fraught.

ucaetano 9y ago
> Doing it manually as you suggest is likely hopeless and more politically fraught. Yes, but, sadly, necessary.
- tux1968 9y ago
  Disagree that there is any necessity at all -- the supposed cure will be worse than the disease.
  - ucaetano 9y ago
    Not necessarily, look at the "black girls" example. Anyway, that's Google's call to make.
    - tux1968 9y ago
      You're trying to advocate for Google to make a certain decision by asserting that it is "necessary". I'm doing the same by asserting that it is decidedly "not necessary".
      - ucaetano 9y ago
        Apparently Google thinks it's necessary, since they are doing that decision.