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> I know exactly how a search engine works, so your explanation is irrelevant. No, you don't. > Google spiders the web and creates profiles about people It d
by VikingCoder 12y ago
> I know exactly how a search engine works, so your explanation is irrelevant.
No, you don't.
> Google spiders the web and creates profiles about people
It does not create profiles of people. It creates indexes of words.
When you look at those words, YOU conclude that it's a profile of a person.
CLEARLY, if Google is designed to operate on profiles of people, then it should handle that data carefully, etc.
But CLEARLY if Google is designed to operate on indexes of words, then it's nowhere near as clear what should happen if you happen to search for the name of a person.
You're now demanding that Google LEARN the difference between words and the names of people, and that it behave differently for the two.
So, yes, EvanKelly asked an insightful question:
Are you opposed to the idea of indexes of words in general?
To which you must honestly answer YES. Because you apparently do not believe that it can be considered JUST an index of words. You want this extra layer of understanding.
The telephone company is not responsible for you getting death threats. The post office is not responsible for stopping you from getting a pipe bomb. Making information like this available on the web IS THE PROBLEM.
Indexing words should be innocent.
It's like you want to sue the owners of a building because a bullet ricocheted off of it and killed your dog. Go after the jerk with the gun, okay?
- gress 12y agoYou don't seem to understand that Google is a company run by people who are part of a society. Not some kind of naturally occurring algorithm.
- VikingCoder 12y agoBurn the library down, because you were offended by a book. Card catalogs should be illegal. Let's dig up Melvil Dewey and desecrate his corpse. The fundamental question is: is it harmful to run a word index algorithm on the internet's data? You're saying YES. Don't you realize how backwards and harmful that is?
- gress 12y agoWhat have these straw men got to do with anything other than that you don't like the idea of Google having any responsibility for the negative consequences of their service?
- VikingCoder 12y agoAm I correct in saying that you think it is harmful to run a word index algorithm on the internet's data?
- gress 12y agoYou keep asking that and I've already answered. No. The harm is in the information you publish about people. Using a word index algorithm in the process is irrelevant to that.
- VikingCoder 12y agoGoogle didn't publish this information. Google IS a word index algorithm, which ECHOES the information. If you don't want something to show up in the index, then stop it from being published. That's why we keep asking: I assert, "Google IS a word index algorithm on the internet's data. Is it be harmful to run a word index algorithm on the world's data?" To which you say "NO." Then, somehow, you're still asserting that Google did harm. Google Search is JUST a word index algorithm. That is the entirety of what it is. So, by your argument, it is NOT harmful to run Google.
- gress 12y agoYou seem to be saying that there is no Google corporation, no Larry Page or Sergei Brin, and no Google Offices or employees, or executives. That is what it means to assert that google is just an algorithm.
- VikingCoder 12y ago"Is it be harmful to run a word index algorithm on the world's data?" That question COULD NOT BE MORE CLEAR. It doesn't matter if Larry Page and Sergey Brin form a corporation named Google to do it, or not. And yet, you say "No, it's not harmful" when we ask you, but then you say, "Yes, it is harmful, if Larry and Sergey make a company called Google to do it." YOU ARE CONTRADICTING YOURSELF.