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Google: “There has been a shift in our thinking…”
- auctiontheory 14y agoGoogle must believe that the barrier to entry is now (only) brand awareness, rather than product (search) quality. Let's see whether that remains true forever.
- bluebaby 14y agoWhat a paranoid post. Google "manipulates" results for financial gain? The assumption that there is a pure solution to a search query is ignorant of search and information retrieval, which fundamentally rely on human-curated content. PageRank also relied on "Human-curated content". In fact, anything having to do with natural language processing does so in some way. This is a far cry from saying that Google is hand-tuning search results. In fact, Google has only begun to do so recently as a response to government-orders to hide terms relating to media piracy or Chinese politics. This post displays a lot of romantic confusion about the effects of social media on web search.
- drequivalent 14y agoSo much for not being evil.
- michaelwww 14y agoScott Huffman is presenting Google's new direction, formulated by University of California law professor Eugene Volokh: http://www.volokh.com/2012/05/09/first-amendment-protection-for-search-engine-search-results/ http://www.volokh.com/2012/05/09/first-amendment-protection-...