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I feel like people can only get attention for something if they express how disturbed by it they are. If this is creepy how creepy is a search engine? You can f
by amadeuspagel 4y ago
I feel like people can only get attention for something if they express how disturbed by it they are. If this is creepy how creepy is a search engine? You can find the websites of "democracy advocates in Hong Kong, Putin-critics in Russia, gay people in Uganda" using any search engine. People put stuff on the web because they want it to be found.
It reminds me of the hand-wringing about the youtube recommendation algorithm. Billions of people discover amazing stuff is not a story, a few people discover disturbing stuff is.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoYou can fairly easily hide from a search engine by essentially doing reverse SEO techniques, by blocking crawlers or feeding them different results, or just hiding behind login screens. The problem with the similarity technique is that it can find associations between sites that do not link to each other, regardless whether and how they try to hide. It's enough that someone thinks they are related.