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I think you've got this wrong - they should heavily editorialize the titles. Honest titles of search results: * Five pages of flowery text and images before t

I think you've got this wrong - they should heavily editorialize the titles. Honest titles of search results: * Five pages of flowery text and images before two lines of instruction on how to boil rice * A bunch of tantalizing pictures of exactly what you're looking for but zero further information about it * Product reviews machine-generated from public review sources with affiliate links. Top-rated product has the best affiliate revenue. * You won't care about this solution to a problem you don't have. etc...

sosuke 5y ago
This sounds like it would make a very entertaining Chrome extension.
dheera 5y ago
Would also be nice if they edited things to actually be true, e.g. * e-bike with 10 miles of actual range even though they advertise 30 miles * laptop with 2 hours of battery life at 100% CPU usage even though they advertise 10 hours * median $450 flight even though they advertise it as $199
- golemiprague 5y ago
- Spivak 5y ago
  > laptop with 2 hours of battery life at 100% CPU usage Is there any laptop on the market that lives up to this. Even top specced MBPs I've gotten from work fall down when you actually use the CPU with compilers and VMs.
  - hetspookjee 5y ago
    My simple M1 mpb 16gb seems to work for almost 2 hours when hammering the cpu. Haven’t timed it actually but I find it astonishing compared to the Dell mess I’ve had to deal with before.
  - dheera 5y ago
    Oh just an example. Hammer it at 100% CPU usage and report battery life based on that. Or a (min,max) based on idle and 100% CPU.
- vel0city 5y ago
  You're never going to guarantee some kind of range on an e-bike. What's the temperature of the battery? Is it mostly uphill or down hill? How much are you going to brake? And advertising laptop battery life based on the CPU getting pegged to 100% gives meaningless information as its rare for people to actually have their device running at 100% load anyways.
  - dheera 5y ago
    > You're never going to guarantee some kind of range on an e-bike. What's the temperature of the battery? Is it mostly uphill or down hill? How much are you going to brake? Yeah but testing the e-bike on a track and telling the public it has 30 miles of range based on that is disingenuous. Instead, go to a city with an average amount of hills, stop lights, and cold weather and give in a go, and tell that number to the public. If it beats that, in their actual city they'll only be pleasantly surprised. Right now you strand a shitton of people because they think they have 30 miles.
titanomachy 5y ago
Ah, rice. The quintessential Asian grain, now consumed by billions around the world. When I was a child, my mixed-race family used to eat rice every day! Even today, the subtle aroma of rice wafting up from the kitchen brings a sense of nostalgia. It's a sure sign that dinner is approaching, my favorite meal of the day... [5 pages later] 1. Put rice and water in rice cooker 2. Press "start"
- sidewndr46 5y ago
  Woah now, shouldn't step 1 be broken up into 2 steps. Each with their own heading and a paragraph explaining how to do that?
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  - AceJohnny2 5y ago
    What kind of rice? Do you rinse the rice first? How much rice? How much water? Do you salt the water?
- rhizome 5y ago
  and "rice cooker" is an affiliate link
  - codeisawesome 5y ago
    Let’s also not forget the 55 auto-playing video ads that I need to vault over to get to Step 1. Each one determined to hijack my mouse as I scroll/hurry past and cause a click! It’s like the world’s least fun platformer game.
- codeisawesome 5y ago
  I got instantly annoyed by the first few words of this comment, thinking you’d gone off on some tangent about rice… until I saw the last part. Well played!
- prawn 5y ago
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lolsal 5y ago
Imagine if your CLI tools did this.
autoexec 5y ago
That depends on Google being both honest and accurate. Perhaps they have been so far, but my concern would be that a re-written title would cause quality content to get passed over by many viewers as undesirable/irrelevant because some algorithm misunderstood/misinterpreted what it was looking at, or because google wanted to subtly discourage people from content that competes or disagrees with whatever Google is attempting to promote. In a better world, algorithms would be perfect and there would be a lot of healthy competition in search engines and google would be incentivized to provide users with the best possible results. In our current world Google's algorithm can't identify obvious spam well enough to keep it out of their results and there are no major search engines that haven't been lifting results from Google directly or indirectly and repackaging them as their own, so google has no pressure to do anything but promote whatever is in their own best interests or keep their results accurate and free of spam.

sosuke 5y ago

This sounds like it would make a very entertaining Chrome extension.

dheera 5y ago

Would also be nice if they edited things to actually be true, e.g. * e-bike with 10 miles of actual range even though they advertise 30 miles * laptop with 2 hours of battery life at 100% CPU usage even though they advertise 10 hours * median $450 flight even though they advertise it as $199

golemiprague 5y ago
Spivak 5y ago
> laptop with 2 hours of battery life at 100% CPU usage Is there any laptop on the market that lives up to this. Even top specced MBPs I've gotten from work fall down when you actually use the CPU with compilers and VMs.
- hetspookjee 5y ago
  My simple M1 mpb 16gb seems to work for almost 2 hours when hammering the cpu. Haven’t timed it actually but I find it astonishing compared to the Dell mess I’ve had to deal with before.
- dheera 5y ago
  Oh just an example. Hammer it at 100% CPU usage and report battery life based on that. Or a (min,max) based on idle and 100% CPU.
vel0city 5y ago
You're never going to guarantee some kind of range on an e-bike. What's the temperature of the battery? Is it mostly uphill or down hill? How much are you going to brake? And advertising laptop battery life based on the CPU getting pegged to 100% gives meaningless information as its rare for people to actually have their device running at 100% load anyways.
- dheera 5y ago
  > You're never going to guarantee some kind of range on an e-bike. What's the temperature of the battery? Is it mostly uphill or down hill? How much are you going to brake? Yeah but testing the e-bike on a track and telling the public it has 30 miles of range based on that is disingenuous. Instead, go to a city with an average amount of hills, stop lights, and cold weather and give in a go, and tell that number to the public. If it beats that, in their actual city they'll only be pleasantly surprised. Right now you strand a shitton of people because they think they have 30 miles.

titanomachy 5y ago

Ah, rice. The quintessential Asian grain, now consumed by billions around the world. When I was a child, my mixed-race family used to eat rice every day! Even today, the subtle aroma of rice wafting up from the kitchen brings a sense of nostalgia. It's a sure sign that dinner is approaching, my favorite meal of the day... [5 pages later] 1. Put rice and water in rice cooker 2. Press "start"

sidewndr46 5y ago
Woah now, shouldn't step 1 be broken up into 2 steps. Each with their own heading and a paragraph explaining how to do that?
- deleted 5y ago
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- AceJohnny2 5y ago
  What kind of rice? Do you rinse the rice first? How much rice? How much water? Do you salt the water?
rhizome 5y ago
and "rice cooker" is an affiliate link
- codeisawesome 5y ago
  Let’s also not forget the 55 auto-playing video ads that I need to vault over to get to Step 1. Each one determined to hijack my mouse as I scroll/hurry past and cause a click! It’s like the world’s least fun platformer game.
codeisawesome 5y ago
I got instantly annoyed by the first few words of this comment, thinking you’d gone off on some tangent about rice… until I saw the last part. Well played!
prawn 5y ago

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lolsal 5y ago

Imagine if your CLI tools did this.

autoexec 5y ago

That depends on Google being both honest and accurate. Perhaps they have been so far, but my concern would be that a re-written title would cause quality content to get passed over by many viewers as undesirable/irrelevant because some algorithm misunderstood/misinterpreted what it was looking at, or because google wanted to subtly discourage people from content that competes or disagrees with whatever Google is attempting to promote. In a better world, algorithms would be perfect and there would be a lot of healthy competition in search engines and google would be incentivized to provide users with the best possible results. In our current world Google's algorithm can't identify obvious spam well enough to keep it out of their results and there are no major search engines that haven't been lifting results from Google directly or indirectly and repackaging them as their own, so google has no pressure to do anything but promote whatever is in their own best interests or keep their results accurate and free of spam.