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Tangentially related, I had a surprising experience using DDG yesterday. It was... “smart” for lack of a better word. I was watching an episode of Star Trek TN
by elliekelly 6y ago
Tangentially related, I had a surprising experience using DDG yesterday. It was... “smart” for lack of a better word.
I was watching an episode of Star Trek TNG and a character was introduced that was a little over the top and vaguely resembled Jim Carrey so I searched “Star Trek Jim Carrey” and one of the top results (after a bunch of YouTube clips of some sort of Jim Carrey Star Trek skit) was the Wikipedia page for the specific episode I was watching. And here’s the interesting part: Jim Carrey wasn’t in it.
My search results took my misguided query and still returned the one correct episode out of who knows how many hundreds of Star Trek episodes exist. I can only guess that enough people have searched “Star Trek Jim Carrey” and stopped searching once they got to information about that particular episode.
- kevincox 6y agoIIRC search engines also use the text of the incoming link and surrounding prose. So it is quite possible that enough people on Reddit (or any other discussion site) said "The person in this episode looks like Jim Carrey $link" the the search engine picked up on it.
- dempseye 6y agoThis is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_feedback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_feedback