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Google knows that when I type 'rails' into their search box I mean Ruby on Rails and gives me relevant results, instead of railroad tracks or hand rails. It's
by multiplegeorges 7y ago
Google knows that when I type 'rails' into their search box I mean Ruby on Rails and gives me relevant results, instead of railroad tracks or hand rails.
It's not a big leap to think they'd do that globally for extreme results like DS where most people want to know about them and not actually visit the site.
- mindslight 7y agoIt's a website. Shouldn't your first stop be visiting the site itself to form your own opinion?
- gdfasfklshg4 7y agoYes but in many countries this can get you into legal trouble.
- multiplegeorges 7y agoYou still can, obviously. It's simply more probable that I would prefer a site that contains expert analysis of a topic/subject first.
- true_religion 7y agoSo at what point will Google look at your search history and decide that you are looking for racism when you search for a racist term? I don’t think anyone on here will admit if it’s happening to them, but if the answer is never then that means Google is suppressing the “best” search results due to political reasons. For a less charged example, Google won’t show pornography as the first result for a fetish term, ever. It will always show a clean page with Wikipedia as the first result regardless of safe search. How do you even get it to show non safe for work results?
- krageon 7y ago> decide that you are looking for racism Given that there are definitely people that I have personally met that keep complaining "they keep getting racist results" in Google and Youtube, I'm guessing we are already there. As for how they build up this profile, I'm sure the people that actually know aren't allowed to tell us.