Re:Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets
by pavel_lishin on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:12PM
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If nearly all of your users believe that your product delivers X, when it actually delivers Y, then your product is still broken.
Re:Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets
by colemannugent on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:18PM
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No, your product is not broken. You have a marketing problem. You sold your product as something it was not and now you pay the price of lying to all your users.
Re:Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets
by jedrek on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:12PM
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I bought a car, when I turn the steering wheel left, the wheels turn right. Damn marketing!!!
Re:Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets
by colemannugent on Thursday November 09, 2017 @07:41PM
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More like, "This piece of software I don't understand did something I was not expecting, so now I'm upset that the software isn't actually what I thought it was and I want it changed".
Re:Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets
by pavel_lishin on Friday November 10, 2017 @09:54AM
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If your software is actively presenting something as X, when it's actually Y, that's not a marketing issue. That's your software displaying erroneous data. That's a bug.
The "product" here is the fast search engine that indexes a massive portion of all human knowledge and tries to provide you with results that are meaningful to you all within a quarter of a second. I don't think it is broken, I think it is a miracle that it works as well as it does.
Unfortunately, there is no algorithm to determine "the truth", mainly because there is no universal truth. This is a feature of the world we live in, though I suppose you could call it a bug if you think that there should be some kind of universal truth.