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.
This is like hotdogs. (Score:4, Funny)
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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
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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 :(
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I'd really like to know. (Score:5, Insightful)
Many times I'd really like to know how they picked the pages they send me to.
Specifically, sometimes I'd like to know "why in the world did you sent me to a page that doesn't actually contain the term I was searching for or anything remotely like it?"
Re:I'd really like to know. (Score:5, Informative)
Google shows you what is popular, not what is accurate. Even wrapping quotes around words doesn’t guarantee you’ll get them.
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This, among with totally ignoring the + and - modifiers are among the main reasons I switched to duckduckgo
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To do this [explain how the results pander to you] in a meaningful way, I think the google would have to share some of your personal profile information with you, the person in question. Since that would be a massive violation of the abusive rules of surveillance capitalism, I think any such "explanation" will be some kind of a feint. But maybe the google still has residual delusions of not being evil sufficient to reveal a bit of the truth?
I'm not optimistic, but I do have a prediction. The "how it found t
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s/Donald/former guy/
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To do this [explain how the results pander to you] in a meaningful way, I think the google would have to share some of your personal profile information with you, the person in question.
Their personal profiling is pretty terrible, then, because when they give me links that don't include my search term, they are never links that make me say "oh, that is just what I wanted, I was just too stupid to ask for it."
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I think I need to clarify the premise of my analysis? I think the results are not random or insane, but somewhere there is a justification for them. In the situation you are describing (as far as I understand your description), part of the answer is that the google might have wildly incorrect personal information about you and about what you want. But that might be exactly what you prefer?
Remove all results related to ... (Score:3)
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Don’t forget pinterest. Hilarious to see walmart.com selling everything from 10gb transceivers to vacuum tubes through third parties.
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Google just quotes wikis these days (Score:2)
How it found the results ... (Score:2)
I'm guessing: distributed-database search?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
missing AV (Score:1)
Sigh (Score:2)
Another worse method to show us the stuff that it THINKS we're MEANING instead of just searching what we tell it to do.
Top Five reasons for your top results (Score:2)
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