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You seriously believe financial and strategical decisions are made by tech people at Google? That's just silly. Look at glassdoor. They have finance people, dir

by rorrr 16y ago

You seriously believe financial and strategical decisions are made by tech people at Google? That's just silly. Look at glassdoor. They have finance people, directors and executives of all kinds. They also have shareholders. Those are the people who make important decisions. And then you call me a conspiracy theorist, immediately followed by a pretty insane conspiracy theory about Apple community. I'm not even an Apple fan.

spiffworks 16y ago
First, let me just say sorry for the previous comment. Clearly, my attempt at humour fell flat. I never intended to imply that you were an apple fan or anything of the sort. What I meant to say was that I've seen many reports which show a large percentage of executives at Google to be engineers and programmers, although I can't find a link right now. However, I seriously doubt that Google engineers would have gone along without revolt down a slippery slope as the one implied in the original article.
- rorrr 16y ago
  It doesn't matter whether our theories are right or not. The facts are 1) Google search results are full of spam. 2) Many of the spam sites have been reported (I reported a few myself) and blogged/written about for years. What can one conclude from that? I think there are 2 possible explanations 1) It's not in Google's financial interests 2) Google is failing at filtering spam I doubt it's true, because simply banning the top 1000 spammy domains would cut more than 99% of the search spam. It's something that an intern can do. If Google wants a pure algorithmic solution instead, well, good luck to them. I think until AI is smarter than humans, such solution doesn't exist. Spammers can always find loopholes in algorithms.
  - TeHCrAzY 16y ago
    I doubt they are failing at spam, at least not in the common sense. My gmail account received 1000's of spam emails a week, and it's a rare for one to pass the filter, and even rarer for a genuine email to not. It most likely a much simpler explanation: web results with content explicitly generated for a specific target search string is simply getting closer and closer to being actual genuine content, and thus harder and harder to differentiate and filter.
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by rorrr 16y ago

spiffworks 16y ago

First, let me just say sorry for the previous comment. Clearly, my attempt at humour fell flat. I never intended to imply that you were an apple fan or anything of the sort. What I meant to say was that I've seen many reports which show a large percentage of executives at Google to be engineers and programmers, although I can't find a link right now. However, I seriously doubt that Google engineers would have gone along without revolt down a slippery slope as the one implied in the original article.

rorrr 16y ago
It doesn't matter whether our theories are right or not. The facts are 1) Google search results are full of spam. 2) Many of the spam sites have been reported (I reported a few myself) and blogged/written about for years. What can one conclude from that? I think there are 2 possible explanations 1) It's not in Google's financial interests 2) Google is failing at filtering spam I doubt it's true, because simply banning the top 1000 spammy domains would cut more than 99% of the search spam. It's something that an intern can do. If Google wants a pure algorithmic solution instead, well, good luck to them. I think until AI is smarter than humans, such solution doesn't exist. Spammers can always find loopholes in algorithms.
- TeHCrAzY 16y ago
  I doubt they are failing at spam, at least not in the common sense. My gmail account received 1000's of spam emails a week, and it's a rare for one to pass the filter, and even rarer for a genuine email to not. It most likely a much simpler explanation: web results with content explicitly generated for a specific target search string is simply getting closer and closer to being actual genuine content, and thus harder and harder to differentiate and filter.

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