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...what? I've known of this for at least a decade. Do people expect Google to be some free-for-all of unmoderated knowledge that can be used to defame and degra

...what? I've known of this for at least a decade. Do people expect Google to be some free-for-all of unmoderated knowledge that can be used to defame and degrade others?

danso 5y ago
The author of the tweet also wrote a major NYT story about the topic earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972121 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972121 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/technology/change-my-google-results.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/technology/change-my-goog... The story focuses on a software engineer who discovered that he was the slander target of someone who had been fired by his father 30 years ago. He found her identity and took her to court in 2018. But the libelous Google results didn't change. The NYT story even ends with this: > Yet even that hasn’t solved the problem. See for yourself: Do a Google search for “Guy Babcock.” A day after the NYT story, those results disappeared. Here's what they looked like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25973045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25973045 If a software engineer with the resources to find and take an anonymous libeler didn't know that Google could manually intervene and remove results that listed him as a pedophile, I'm assuming the vast majority of people are equally unaware.
- forgotpwd16 5y ago
  >Until recently, Google would remove a website from your results only if it could cause financial damage, such as by exposing your Social Security number. Now Google will remove other harmful content, including revenge porn and private medical information. No wonder few people know it. On the "until recently" checking the Internet Archive[0], removal of any personal information was introduced to their page at end of 2019. Before then the only way was removing the information from the sites to which the result link pointed. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20191229062036/https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?hl=en https://web.archive.org/web/20191229062036/https://support.g...
sneak 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/

...what? I've known of this for at least a decade. Do people expect Google to be some free-for-all of unmoderated knowledge that can be used to defame and degrade others?

danso 5y ago

The author of the tweet also wrote a major NYT story about the topic earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972121 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972121 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/technology/change-my-google-results.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/technology/change-my-goog... The story focuses on a software engineer who discovered that he was the slander target of someone who had been fired by his father 30 years ago. He found her identity and took her to court in 2018. But the libelous Google results didn't change. The NYT story even ends with this: > Yet even that hasn’t solved the problem. See for yourself: Do a Google search for “Guy Babcock.” A day after the NYT story, those results disappeared. Here's what they looked like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25973045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25973045 If a software engineer with the resources to find and take an anonymous libeler didn't know that Google could manually intervene and remove results that listed him as a pedophile, I'm assuming the vast majority of people are equally unaware.

forgotpwd16 5y ago
>Until recently, Google would remove a website from your results only if it could cause financial damage, such as by exposing your Social Security number. Now Google will remove other harmful content, including revenge porn and private medical information. No wonder few people know it. On the "until recently" checking the Internet Archive[0], removal of any personal information was introduced to their page at end of 2019. Before then the only way was removing the information from the sites to which the result link pointed. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20191229062036/https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?hl=en https://web.archive.org/web/20191229062036/https://support.g...

sneak 5y ago

https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/