Why I’m done with Chrome

Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by sct202 on Monday September 24, 2018 @09:30AM (#18057472)

And right under that there is a suggested link for "Right to keep and bear arms." What is most likely happening is that the Gun Control page is more popular than the Right to keep and bear arms page, so the algo picked that one for the single card that they load. IDK what they use for ranking, but I would imagine that the fact that 'gun' appears in the title of one and not the other is impacting the matching and also the Gun Control page is much longer so it probably seems like a higher quality page versus the other one.

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Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by llampx on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:18AM (#18057848)

You don't seriously believe that, do you? Google has an agenda. They don't hire lobbyists on K street to fight for more neutral search results.

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Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by antsar on Monday September 24, 2018 @11:50AM (#18058699)

Can't both be true?

• "Google has an agenda. They don't hire lobbyists on K street to fight for more neutral search results."

• In this case, "the fact that 'gun' appears in the title of one and not the other is impacting the matching and also the Gun Control page is much longer so it probably seems like a higher quality page versus the other one"

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Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by dagenix on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:25PM (#18060030)

Google's agenda is to make money. Hinting that they have a secret agenda to take away people's guns is just unsubstantiated conspiracy theory nonsense.

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Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by lolc on Monday September 24, 2018 @11:44AM (#18058645)

Having the word "gun" in the title explains why the "gun control" page is listed first. Positing Google does it because they have an agenda besides showing relevant results fails the law of parsimony here.

Please explain how Google implements its agenda into the search results people see before mocking other people's statements.

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Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by partiallypro on Monday September 24, 2018 @01:49PM (#18059735)

It may not be "on purpose," but it is happening. Creators of algorithms inherently assign their own biases.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/1...

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/E4512

Also note that the top "organic" result on Google's search for "Gun Rights" is just a tag page from NPR. There is no way that's a relevant result. So even if it's not on purpose, it's a very poor result...and given it stands out more so than other keyword searches it seems a bit odd.

Edit: down voted for citing study from the National Academy of Sciences, bubbles certainly are thick.

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