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Interesting, wonder if Google's algorithm is even prepared to rank "there is no good answer" as a good result. I mean it's optimized to provide good answers, if
by facepalm 12y ago
Interesting, wonder if Google's algorithm is even prepared to rank "there is no good answer" as a good result. I mean it's optimized to provide good answers, if there is no good answer perhaps the algorithm just breaks apart completely.
- digi_owl 12y agoA whole other issue is their bubble. Once you start clicking certain links etc, Google will take that history into account when sorting the results. Thus you get into a "positive" feedback loop...
- emsy 12y agoI mean, there has to be pages that say: there are no good answers (but we also can't say it's vaccines). Also, I wonder why I'm being downvoted. Google meddling with search results is nothing new, sometimes they're even legally/politically forced to do so. Assuming we get unfiltered results is very naive.
- VLM 12y ago"is even prepared to rank "there is no good answer" as a good result" Try an experiment, look at this this: No results found for "cow thiophenol romanesque establishment". The search result without the quotes seems to just be noise, any random page about cows or romanesque architecture or thiophenols.
- shutupalready 12y agoNot to detract from your observation, but just as an aside, I wanted to mention that less than an hour after your comment, googling for "cow thiophenol romanesque establishment" (with or without quotes) lists this very page as the first result. Google must be indexing certain sites (like HN) very frequently.
- grkvlt 12y agoActually, it seems some site called "Hacker News" has a page on that stuff, but accessing it just led to a discussion about Autism in adults. Go figure...