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> The hard part in all of this isn't finding and stopping spam - it's defining what spam is. This is one area where Google could use personalised results to pr
by joshuaissac 5y ago
> The hard part in all of this isn't finding and stopping spam - it's defining what spam is.
This is one area where Google could use personalised results to provide a better experience for the user. Let me decide what spam is for me. Let me mark results as good or bad, so that the algorithm knows what kind of pages should be prioritised or filtered out the next time. Google SearchWiki was a step towards this but they killed it off.
- nathanyz 5y agoIs conservative leaning info spam or not spam? What about liberal leaning info? We have seen what this leads to inside the social networks as well as YouTube, and at a macro scale I think we might want to have a shared concept of what constitutes a good search result for a given query. At micro scale, it can seem more optimized to get exactly the type of result you want, but if we take an absurd example like an Apple Pie recipe shouldn't we all have shared understanding of what types of ingredients would make for an Apple Pie? The shared understanding, I believe, is core to communication. If all of us have our own specific ideas of Apple Pie, then who is actually right on what an Apple Pie really is? What happens when your search results insist that an Apple Pie doesn't actually have apples in it, but instead pears?