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By removing user profile data as an input to the search query processing and result ranking.

• gruez 5y ago
  So censoring a specific topic or viewpoint is fine as long as it's applied to everyone?
  • kumarvvr 5y ago
    Did you even read what I said? If you remove user related data as an input to the search query, the results will be purely based on algorithm efficiency, rather than feeding on the biases of the users. Such feedback loops, of showing content that is suitable to the user, will lead to information silos and gradual radicalization of the user.
    • 6510 5y ago
      > the results will be purely based on algorithm efficiency With much respect for those who have to hammer them out: The algorithms are full of bias, they have to be. They are essentially just a pile of hacks. Machines cant understand articles. Even if they could they would have the same problem a human reviewer would have when asked if article A is better than B. You cant switch off your own bias. Even if we could do all that you may end up with a category dominated by the writings of [say] 50-51 year old Caucasian males which forces you to ponder corrections that may or may not be terrible ideas if or if not applied. And then you have to chose which bias to apply and we are back to biased search results. People are the sum of their experiences, if you remove that nothing is left.
• mlnj 5y ago
  That is not the topic being talked about. Is Google allowed to filter results on any internal criteria they can come up with? It includes all avenues like political, censorship, fake news, low quality, competitor results etc.