Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me

Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by anonytrary on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:16AM (#18966347)

Google isn't a single person saying sentences who can immediately change what he says in his next sentence. Changing Google results is not trivial, the search engine has lots of quirks and is a complex code. If you ask Google to change something, you need to submit a ticket, which is in line with thousands of other tickets. That ticket needs to get evaluated by a customer support team, which sends it to another team, which sends it to another team. Google is a gargantuan entity and things take time. It is very easy to see how this lack of change can arise from something other than malicious intent. I highly doubt Google is intentionally trying to taint this one man's reputation.

TLDR: Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by daveFNbuck on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:23AM (#18966378)

So there is no possible situation in which you would say Google was lying in a search result?

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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by anonytrary on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:54AM (#18966497)

Any possible situation? Of course there is. This one? Highly unlikely. There's no way Google cares enough about this guy to lie about him. Apparently, they don't even care enough about him to fix the error in their search result. Poor guy, he's in the "famous but not famous enough" valley.

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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by daveFNbuck on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:26AM (#18969414)

But the question that's been asked 3 times now in this thread is what it would take for Google to be considered lying. If I don't establish that, how can we discuss whether this qualifies?

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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by anonytrary on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:25PM (#18972647)

I feel like we're beating a dead horse at this point. If someone at Google intentionally modified the result output to say X where X is false, then that would be considered lying.

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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by daveFNbuck on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @07:37PM (#18974501)

Would you consider it lying if someone at Google reviewed his request, understood it to be true, and then did not change the incorrect information?

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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by anonytrary on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:57AM (#18976002)

I think you know what I'm gonna say. No, it's not "lying". Stop using that word, or look up the definition already. Use a better word like "negligence".

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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by daveFNbuck on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @01:53AM (#18976246)

I honestly thought you were going to agree that this would be a lie. I thought you were saying lies are about knowingly spreading a falsehood. Once someone at Google has verified that it's false, how does its continued spread not become a lie in the same way that it would be if that person wrote the untrue statement?

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