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There's no such thing as an unbiased yet useful search engine. The very act of choosing which article to put at the top is a value judgment, therefore a bias. T
by not2b 4y ago
There's no such thing as an unbiased yet useful search engine. The very act of choosing which article to put at the top is a value judgment, therefore a bias. The only way to make things "unbiased" would be to rank the matches randomly, and that would be useless.
- xigoi 4y agoThis is just an index on which different search engines with different priorities can be built.
- denton-scratch 4y ago> The only way to make things "unbiased" would be to rank the matches randomly Well, I would rather like to have visibility into the ranking algorithm, and to be able to control the resultset ordering.
- not2b 4y agoSo would the SEO people. But even disregarding that problem, to have a halfway decent search ranking you're going to need deep learning, and you'll get a model that is largely opaque.
- denton-scratch 4y agoHeh! You've mistaken me for a marketer, I think. When I said I wanted control over the ranking, I meant as a user. Tell me what parameters I can rank on; give me a UI that makes it reasonably easy to express a ranking. That's it. I hope UI design and stuff is orthogonal to the construction of an open index. I think this could be very interesting.