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> That's because Microsoft got caught censoring the results, then they lied and claimed it was a "human error," which absolutely nobody believes. Oh, I don't k
by bigwavedave 5y ago
> That's because Microsoft got caught censoring the results, then they lied and claimed it was a "human error," which absolutely nobody believes.
Oh, I don't know. If we can label "accidentally using the wrong scope" as a human error, I could easily see a situation where someone meant to remove something from Chinese search results but accidentally did it worldwide. I don't know what their infrastructure is like, what kind of safeguards they have in place, or even what they do to block a result from the all-seeing algorithm. Which is more likely: that Microsoft would allow China to dictate what the rest of the world can/cannot see or that someone made a mistake and blocked something globally instead of regionally?
- relativ575 5y agoI find it baffled that a company of that caliber don't have regression tests that can verify region-bound changes wouldn't affect results intended for other regions.
- kbenson 5y agoIf someone accidentally didn't scope the change as region bound, what makes you think they couldn't accidentally scope the test wrong the same way? Human error knows no bounds.
- true_religion 5y agoIt was a mistake not an accident. When you make an accident, test safety checks can save you. However although you don’t intentionally make a mistake, you do intentionally carry it out. In that case, no amount of safety checking will stop a human being from implementing bad logic.