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Your comment made me check out DuckDuckGo for the first time in a long while. To support your point, there's also a huge difference in the auto-fill suggestion
by alehul 8y ago
Your comment made me check out DuckDuckGo for the first time in a long while.
To support your point, there's also a huge difference in the auto-fill suggestions, and I'd guess DuckDuckGo is more accurate to what users actually search.
How is it possible that this woman had an affair with the mayor of San Francisco, and the top auto-fill suggestions on Google are "parents," "sister," "mother," and "breakfast club," rather than "affair," "willie brown," and so forth (on DuckDuckGo)?
- bduerst 8y agoThis perception of bias stems from a technical illiteracy of search autocomplete. Even your example is a removed autocomplete result because of sexual content [1]. Google recently re-explained how their autocomplete policy works [2] because partisan hacks were cherry-picking queries to accuse Google of bias [3], not unlike GP is doing here. [1] https://www.blog.google/products/search/how-google-autocomplete-works-search/ https://www.blog.google/products/search/how-google-autocompl... [2] https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-autocomplete/ https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-autocomple... [3] https://medium.com/@rhea/hillary-clintons-search-results-manipulated-by-sourcefed-not-google-3dd9a5c68ca1 https://medium.com/@rhea/hillary-clintons-search-results-man...
- calibas 8y agoHow is the decision actually made, does a person decide? I don't really see any real technical details there, I'm just supposed to trust Google.
- bduerst 8y agoDid you actually look? If you would read the citations you would see that details on how it is done by predictive algorithms.
- calibas 8y agoWhat happens when a human being reports a prediction? Is that done purely by an algorithm? I still see nothing with real technical details in the three articles you linked to.
- bduerst 8y agoYes, reading manual submissions is almost certainly algorithmically scanned, validated, and scaled. If an outsider like yourself could see 'the technical details' then it would be too easy to game results, like you were already complaining about in another comment.
- calibas 8y agoSo we don't really get to know how it works as there's nothing but vague details. I've known from the beginning that it's mainly done through algorithms. I'm sorry, I don't trust Google simply because they assure me they can be trusted. I don't have that level of faith in a religion, much less a corporation.