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> Im afraid this is potentially dangerously political. It only took 7 days for that other search engine project on HN last week (Mwmbl) to add hard-coded weigh
by Closi 5y ago
> Im afraid this is potentially dangerously political.
It only took 7 days for that other search engine project on HN last week (Mwmbl) to add hard-coded weights for certain news websites, so it does show how careful you have to be with this stuff.
https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/blob/a41088ca9ad7fdcac952a3be84c086316d9e77fa/mwmbl/tinysearchengine/hn_top_domains_filtered.py#L1 https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/blob/a41088ca9ad7fdcac952a3be...
- schleck8 5y agoWhat's the issue with that? Doesn't Google do this too, based on ssl availability for instance?
- Closi 5y agoWell Google testified against having hardcoded weights for news websites in congress. And the issue is because it creates filter bubbles and introduces bias into how information is discovered.