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This sort of lawyer talk is depressingly common. Like, a social network tells you "you've violated our community standards" but won't say how you did it. Calli
by AlbertCory 3y ago
This sort of lawyer talk is depressingly common. Like, a social network tells you "you've violated our community standards" but won't say how you did it.
Calling something "inaccurate" is utter BS. In an actual legal proceeding, the parties are enjoined to speak "with specificity," meaning that kind of crap isn't tolerated. But in a public statement, anything goes, apparently.
You can see why they do it: if they did answer with specificity, people would just argue about the details. Calling it "inaccurate" is equivalent to, "sit down and shut up."
- jeffbee 3y agoIt doesn't seem like "lawyer talk" to me. The original article really is "baseless" in that it utterly fails to establish, or even attempt to establish, any factual basis for its claims. Fatally it does not establish the key claim that search quality actually got worse.
- pclmulqdq 3y ago"Search quality got worse" is a widely-held opinion about a subjective measure (quality of search results). It's not a statement of fact at all.
- Eisenstein 3y ago> it utterly fails to establish, or even attempt to establish, any factual basis for its claims. You mean, besides all the directly quoted emails that were presented as evidence in a Federal court case?
- AlbertCory 3y agowhether or not that's true (and other replies here say it's not): they will always just deny without any specifics.
- jeffbee 3y agoA person who says they don't have hard data on search quality, but they know it's worse, is not making a serious argument.
- AlbertCory 3y agoThe original article had plenty of specificity.
- pclmulqdq 3y agoI am now conditioned to believe that any time a lawyer or a corporation crafts a statement, it has the bare minimum truth value required by the semantics of the statement. In this case "baseless speculation" would mean "it's all true, but you can't prove it" and "inaccurate" means "one minor detail is a bit off."
- ben_w 3y ago> it's all true, but you can't prove it Puts me in mind of a different saying: just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.