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I wonder if there's a secret, vanilla Google endpoint out there without all the special interest filtering.

by dyeje 8y ago

njarboe 8y ago
I wonder if people working at Google get a different google search from the rest of us. Seems likely.
- CoryG89 8y ago
  Maybe, but it couldn't be widespread, or I would definitely think it would leak eventually.
  - njarboe 8y ago
    Possibly. But aren't everyone's google searches already customized when you are logged in to Google. If people at google don't have special options, then how would they know they get a special (ie. better) type of search. I wonder how many people have access and understand the full search source code at google (less all the machine learning stuff)? In older versions of google, one could quote a full error message of almost any type that came up on your computer and get a very good page describing that that error meant. Now that is not the case. Maybe the internet has degraded and this is no longer possible, but I would imagine it would really help out google coders if they had a system of searching the web for error messages that worked (and quite a competitive advantage if it only worked for them).
    - skellera 8y ago
      > I wonder how many people have access and understand the full search source code at google (less all the machine learning stuff)? Not many, it's probably the highest guarded secret in the company as far as products go.
- jankeymeulen 8y ago
  No, doesn't seem different to me. Of course, when logged in with the corp Google account / on the corp network you can see some debugging info and there will be likely some experiments running, but pretty much the same.
  - prepend 8y ago
    If you’re inside Google, do you have access to api definitions or source? There must be some raw result before they apply all the various removals and cosmetic (piracy ban) weights. It seems like you would to test with this to assess quality.

I wonder if there's a secret, vanilla Google endpoint out there without all the special interest filtering.

by dyeje 8y ago

I wonder if there's a secret, vanilla Google endpoint out there without all the special interest filtering.

njarboe 8y ago

I wonder if people working at Google get a different google search from the rest of us. Seems likely.

CoryG89 8y ago
Maybe, but it couldn't be widespread, or I would definitely think it would leak eventually.
- njarboe 8y ago
  Possibly. But aren't everyone's google searches already customized when you are logged in to Google. If people at google don't have special options, then how would they know they get a special (ie. better) type of search. I wonder how many people have access and understand the full search source code at google (less all the machine learning stuff)? In older versions of google, one could quote a full error message of almost any type that came up on your computer and get a very good page describing that that error meant. Now that is not the case. Maybe the internet has degraded and this is no longer possible, but I would imagine it would really help out google coders if they had a system of searching the web for error messages that worked (and quite a competitive advantage if it only worked for them).
  - skellera 8y ago
    > I wonder how many people have access and understand the full search source code at google (less all the machine learning stuff)? Not many, it's probably the highest guarded secret in the company as far as products go.
jankeymeulen 8y ago
No, doesn't seem different to me. Of course, when logged in with the corp Google account / on the corp network you can see some debugging info and there will be likely some experiments running, but pretty much the same.
- prepend 8y ago
  If you’re inside Google, do you have access to api definitions or source? There must be some raw result before they apply all the various removals and cosmetic (piracy ban) weights. It seems like you would to test with this to assess quality.