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Any time you publish information on the web you need to consider whether you are defaming someone. This applies whether a word index is part of your publishing
by gress 12y ago
Any time you publish information on the web you need to consider whether you are defaming someone. This applies whether a word index is part of your publishing process or not.
These laws aren't written about 'word indexes' they are written about the rights people have to publish information about other people. That is what is at issue.
- VikingCoder 12y agoPlease just admit that you can't answer my question. You assert that A) is harmless, and B) is harmful, but you can't explain the difference between A and B. YOU'RE the one who said that A is harmless, and B is harmful. NOT ME. If you conclude from all of this discussion, that it is inherently HARMFUL to operate a word index algorithm on the internet's data, that's fine. I disagree, but that's at least a coherent position. But for some bizarre reason, you claim that operating a word index algorithm on the internet's data is not harmful... but that what Google does is harmful. I'm sorry you're incapable of defending your own thought process.
- gress 12y agoThe harm is done by what Google publishes. I've told you this repeatedly. The fact that they use a word index as part of the mechanism is irrelevant. I have repeatedly defended my thought processes. You have simply ignored what I've said, and focused obsessively on whether 'word indexes' are inherently harmful. This has no more relevance than asking whether 'cpu's' are inherently harmful. Many companies use word indexes in what they do. Not all companies are Google. Therefore google is not just a word index.
- VikingCoder 12y agoDo you know what a word index is? a.com/b says "gress is dumb" A word index of that one site would look like these key / list-of-values pairs: gress: [a.com/b] is: [a.com/b] dumb: [a.com/b] If I search on a that word index for the word "gress," I might get as a result: a.com/b "gress is dumb" So, now you're pissed, because the word index says you're dumb. I say you can be pissed at the operators of a.com, or the specific author of the web page b. Maybe even take them to court. YOU'RE the one who said that operating the word index was harmless. This legal case is EXACTLY ANALOGOUS to what I described, and the only important function of Google Search Engine, as far as this debate goes, is that the index under the word "gress" links to the site a.com/b. It's not that Google USES a word index. It's that Google IS a word index. And you said that operating a word index was harmless. And here's how stupid your last paragraph is: All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
- gress 12y agoIf you think that Google is nothing more than a word index, and not a corporation, then you are delusional. It's as simple as that.
- VikingCoder 12y agoYOU'RE the one who said that operating the word index was harmless. And I've demonstrated that operating a word index would have produced exactly the same behavior that you say is harmful. That is a contradiction. If you can't resolve that contradiction, it proves you have unclear thinking on the subject. Whether the operator of the word index is a corporation or not is immaterial to the argument.