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Curiously, a couple of weeks since that post was made, Google have obviously updated their results, I no longer get a "Died:" record when I search for "amy wile
by EwanToo 14y ago
Curiously, a couple of weeks since that post was made, Google have obviously updated their results, I no longer get a "Died:" record when I search for "amy wilentz".
Perhaps another case of Google ignoring you until you get a bit of publicity, or just them finally catching up.
- danso 14y agoIt reminds me of an anecdote from Steven Levy's "In the Plex" on a sneaker wearing gnome that was inexplicably making a mockery of Froogle results: > But one problem was so glaring that the team wasn’t comfortable releasing Froogle: when the query “running shoes” was typed in, the top result was a garden gnome sculpture that happened to be wearing sneakers. Every day engineers would try to tweak the algorithm so that it would be able to distinguish between lawn art and footwear, but the gnome kept its top position. > One day, seemingly miraculously, the gnome disappeared from the results. At a meeting, no one on the team claimed credit. Then an engineer arrived late, holding an elf with running shoes. He had bought the one-of-a kind product from the vendor, and since it was no longer for sale, it was no longer in the index. “The algorithm was now returning the right results,” says a Google engineer. “We didn’t cheat, we didn’t change anything, and we launched.” http://books.google.com/books?id=V1u1f8sv3k8C&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=in+the+plex+google+gnome&source=bl&ots=BRsOdubpoG&sig=53bz17o70vY82gtQsev1FkUbgbU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XnBMUbnFItGsqAGf6ICQCA&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=in%20the%20plex%20google%20gnome&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=V1u1f8sv3k8C&pg=PA60...