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I didn't realise they had deleted ehow, is this actually true? Isn't that a bad thing for neutrality? Where do you draw the line?
by HyprMusic 13y ago
I didn't realise they had deleted ehow, is this actually true? Isn't that a bad thing for neutrality? Where do you draw the line?
- tobylane 13y agoeHow themselves were bad for neutrality, as it was poor quality link-bait. It's too qualitative to describe the line, but the widespread disdain for eHow is a good requirement for the future.
- HyprMusic 13y agoI personally don't believe results should be removed or altered based on human judgement. What if I decide to start a competing service that Gabriel takes a dislike to? Or decide to start a hate site for DDG[1]? Do they not deserve a place on the internet? Is it up to one person to decide this? For neutrality to work it needs to be neutral for absolutely everyone, or atleast that's how I see it. [1] These are purely hypothetical. I'm a big fan of both Gabriel and DDG, and I'm not suggesting he would ever do these.
- sp332 13y agoOf course all search engines are "based on human judgement". Is it different if you write a fancy algorithm that detects these and removes them vs. just deleting the site from the index? I don't think there's a difference.
- dfc 13y agoI don't want "search neutrality." Fortunately any regulatory regime would be an absolute nightmare so I am not worried about search neutrality ever being a big thing. How do you distinguish between relevant search results and a lack of search neutrality?