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Re:Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets by colemannugent on Thursday November 09, 2017 @02:53PM (#15665346)
No, I suppose my point was more that people think that one of the features of Google search results is correctness, which is false. The main feature of Google searches is that it shows you what it thinks you want to see.

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.

Re:Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets by pavel_lishin on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:12PM (#15665485)
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 (#15665534)
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 (#15666250)
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 (#15667049)
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 (#15670203)
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.
Re:Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets by jedrek on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:30PM (#15697782)
There is explicit marketing and implied (historical, metaphorical, etc) behavior.