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> Their job is to create a forum for others to debate, and to try and maintain neutrality What? Says who?

• arcticbull 7y ago
  Others as in not their employees. Google indexes all the worlds information, who says their goal is to impose their opinion on it? Isn't neutrality in indexing the assumption?
  • Nevermindmine 7y ago
    Why would you assume that?
  • cameronbrown 7y ago
    Speaking for myself here. Yes and no. Ranking by definition means not being neutral, it's just that society has decided that it's acceptable to rank spam lower than other content. Neutrality looks a lot like bias from the perspective of spammers. When you're dealing with more complex signals at scale there are so many second and third order effects that are hard or impossible to predict. For example, the conservative bias everyone's talking about doesn't seem to me to be literal bias against the right, but bias in favour of mainstream news sources which are overwhelmingly left-wing. I'm sure there are many issues in Search like the one I just described, and being able to have these conversations is what makes it possible for Googlers to spot these issues, decide if it's even an issue and fix it. If you ban a certain type of conversation, you'll change how people think about a potential issue.
  • root_axis 7y ago
    > Google indexes all the worlds information They do not collect anything even remotely close to "all the worlds information". > who says their goal is to impose their opinion on it Their goal is to make money. Whether they impose their opinion on the index is a business decision. > Isn't neutrality in indexing the assumption? Why would it be? What if the people that run google have a fundamental disagreement with certain political ideas and have a desire not to index those things?