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If a Google employee changes the search algorithm without the knowledge of his manager, how would we ever know?
by w_t_payne 8y ago
If a Google employee changes the search algorithm without the knowledge of his manager, how would we ever know?
- bertil 8y agoI don’t think that you can do that without attracting the attention of other programmers: - You have to ask for a review. - Even if you find a like-minded programmer, most key parts of the code are flagged by senior programmers who get alerted where there is a significant change. - Assuming this goes through, any significant change in which websites get listed, clicked on, etc. will be flagged by an anomaly-detection tool. Changing anything impactful requires to pass through a lot of internal radars, certainly far more sensitive, informed and exhaustive than anything external.
- w_t_payne 8y agoDo you think that this is enough to convince a hostile sceptic?
- grigjd3 8y agoThe commit log in the repo.
- pipingdog 8y agoI don't work for Google, but in my shop, my code has to have 2 ship-its or I can't even get it into the build stage of the pipeline.