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> turning the "conservative search results" lever It may not have been algorithmic, but it definitely happened.

by commandlinefan 5y ago

anothernewdude 5y ago
- dev_by_day 5y ago
  Source needed, plenty of liberal disinformation gets into search results as well and all kind of spammy SEO bullshit. Google search results have been getting shittier across the board is my intuition on this, censorship is less relevant. IMO they just stopped caring about accuracy along time ago and have shifted into "engagement" and recommendation based results instead of accurate ones. Now when you search for something and very few results come back or they think your search terms should be something else, your given a shitty recommendation instead of what you actually searched for.
- EricE 5y ago
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akhmatova 5y ago
You know this how? Because you were that guy?
- mellosouls 5y ago
  A quick Google (ironically) confirms this has happened, beyond the anecdotal evidence of people (including me) who remember it on several occasions. https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch-blocking-websites-including-drudge-breitbart-could-have-revealed-a-mysterious-list/ https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch... I'm not making any comment on the theory in the article, but it has certainly happened. Edit: more context in thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31161790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31161790
- sjtindell 5y ago
  Mellosouls posted a link to a toxic source, and the article doesn’t even have anything in it except empty speculation based on nonsense. Brutal. Either the psyops have reached HN or the level of intellectual honesty about these topics is trash. Or both.
  - mellosouls 5y ago
    I lifted the source indirectly from Google's own results (it was linked to from the Mail online), I have no idea of the general toxicity or otherwise of the website itself.
    - mellosouls 5y ago
      Update: here's a Twitter thread linked from Google's Tweet denying any bias in the incident. Make of it what you will. https://twitter.com/CharlieNash/status/1285612797028700160 https://twitter.com/CharlieNash/status/1285612797028700160

> turning the "conservative search results" lever It may not have been algorithmic, but it definitely happened.

anothernewdude 5y ago

dev_by_day 5y ago
Source needed, plenty of liberal disinformation gets into search results as well and all kind of spammy SEO bullshit. Google search results have been getting shittier across the board is my intuition on this, censorship is less relevant. IMO they just stopped caring about accuracy along time ago and have shifted into "engagement" and recommendation based results instead of accurate ones. Now when you search for something and very few results come back or they think your search terms should be something else, your given a shitty recommendation instead of what you actually searched for.
EricE 5y ago
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deleted 5y ago

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akhmatova 5y ago

You know this how? Because you were that guy?

mellosouls 5y ago
A quick Google (ironically) confirms this has happened, beyond the anecdotal evidence of people (including me) who remember it on several occasions. https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch-blocking-websites-including-drudge-breitbart-could-have-revealed-a-mysterious-list/ https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch... I'm not making any comment on the theory in the article, but it has certainly happened. Edit: more context in thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31161790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31161790
sjtindell 5y ago
Mellosouls posted a link to a toxic source, and the article doesn’t even have anything in it except empty speculation based on nonsense. Brutal. Either the psyops have reached HN or the level of intellectual honesty about these topics is trash. Or both.
- mellosouls 5y ago
  I lifted the source indirectly from Google's own results (it was linked to from the Mail online), I have no idea of the general toxicity or otherwise of the website itself.
  - mellosouls 5y ago
    Update: here's a Twitter thread linked from Google's Tweet denying any bias in the incident. Make of it what you will. https://twitter.com/CharlieNash/status/1285612797028700160 https://twitter.com/CharlieNash/status/1285612797028700160