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One nice thing is that this algorithm is very amendable to being augmented with additional data. For example if your initial adjacency matrix gave equal weight
by orbifold 8y ago
One nice thing is that this algorithm is very amendable to being augmented with additional data. For example if your initial adjacency matrix gave equal weight to each outgoing link, nothing is stopping you from measuring the actual "transition probabilities" by pervasive tracking / custom DNS servers such as 8.8.8.8 and so on. Moreover it is also easy to generate a personalised model for an individual user by recording their activity over time and using that to predict transition probabilities for websites they might never have visited. In that way you can generate a filter bubble.
- candiodari 8y agoYou make it sound so ominous, and the result would in fact be a large positive, rather than a negative. I mean sure, this would require some metrics as to which links are actually followed versus which ones won't, but there's no need for "pervasive tracking". Google could just get these from it's own employees, or indeed try to extract some of these metrics from 8.8.8.8 (ie. from volunteers) Given how big Google is, I'm sure the answer is "all of the above", but the end result is: Google places the page where you eventually end up finding what you want high on the search results page. And it does this by getting tiny amounts of help for you from millions of others, anonymously. So we have no reason to assume any of the methods are nefarious, and the end result of it is definitely useful. More of this, please !
- SquishyPanda23 8y ago> Google places the page where you eventually end up finding what you want high on the search results page. I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you here. The smarter Google tries to make their algorithm the more infuriatingly terrible it is for me to use. All I want is a feature to completely forget my YouTube and search history when I am not logged in. I never want to see personal recommendations, because for me personally they continue to get worse and worse.
- deelowe 8y agoMaybe the issue is that SEO keeps getting better. I bet if you were to get what you really wanted (a completely unpersonalized experience), the results would be horrible, because traditional approaches to ranking are totally useless these days.
- SquishyPanda23 8y agoI have a good experience on new devices. I used to have a pretty good experience deleting cookies every time I close a browser tab, but now even that's degrading. I should probably just buy a new device ever few months like Steve Jobs did with cars.
- nickpsecurity 8y agoIm with you on that. These algorithms make discovery of new, different content way harder than in the past. YouTube almost exclusively suggests stuff Ive already watched or really-similar content. Yet, I found most of it via sources that dont do that.
- SquishyPanda23 8y agoYeah, I think that's really the heart of it. I get why that's the default for the large majority of people, but it's almost never what I personally want. I'm willing to accept that my preferences are different from those of the majority, but I'm not sure I want to live in a world filled with smart devices that are always getting in my way.
- sharemywin 8y agoyou mean under all the ads and links to other google properties like youtube. Remember when they were nice little boxes out of the away...