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Google is Starting To Tell You How It Found Search Results (reuters.com) 24

Alphabet's Google will now show its search engine users more information about why it found the results they are shown, the company said on Thursday. From a report: It said people googling queries will now be able to click into details such as how their result matched certain search terms, in order to better decide if the information is relevant.
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Google is Starting To Tell You How It Found Search Results

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  • by ellithligraw ( 6552178 ) on Thursday July 22, 2021 @01:43PM (#61608817)
    This is like hotdogs. Do we really want to know how they're made?
    • Re: (Score:2, Offtopic)

      by shanen ( 462549 )

      Marginally deserves a Funny mod, but the answer to your question is yes, notwithstanding the famous joke about sausage. Much as I like the flavor, the ingredients are the reason I rarely eat hotdogs (or sausage).

      I have a more substantive response why this could be a good thing, but I think it should go in a more substantive branch. Is it conceivable the google could become less EVIL?

      (But should discussions begin with a joke? Perhaps on the model of starting your presentation with a joke?)

      (My current ear-wor

    • This is like hotdogs. Do we really want to know how they're made?

      At least one fact people should be aware of is that even the best hotdog places put less than 50% real dog meat in their hotdogs :(

    • Well, I at least like to have the (likely fake) sense of security that comes with it being a kosher dog.
  • by RitchCraft ( 6454710 ) on Thursday July 22, 2021 @01:47PM (#61608827)
    ... eBay, Amazon, and Wal-mart then you *might* get something relevant to your search. I'm tired of having to add -ebay -amazon and -walmart to all my searches.
  • If not Wikipedia then one of the other wiki sites like Fandom or other Wikimedia sites. That or Reddit and Quora. Most other search engines use the same algorithms as well. What happened to citing reliable sources directly?
  • I'm guessing: distributed-database search?

  • Google has deteriorated so much, I'm missing Alta Vista from pre 2000 on simple text searches, never mind all Google's newer candy services.
  • Another worse method to show us the stuff that it THINKS we're MEANING instead of just searching what we tell it to do.

  • 5) NSA guy monitoring your searches just had a really good feeling about this link.
    4) Idealogical filter allowed this result through.
    3) Google made $0.10 extra for showing you this result just a bit before the others. Ka-Ching!
    2) You probably really wanted to know about this Google based 20% project over what you were looking for, right?
    1) After searching through 14,000,065 futures we determined this was the result you really wanted (what how did you think Google delivered such good results without the Tim

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