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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by marcosdumay on Saturday May 11, 2019 @12:32PM (#19886976)
If they are operating on top of a mountain of data, then they have a problem (what honestly would be good, even too good to believe).

People are not the memoryless automata that statistics handles best. People react positively to a bad change up to a point where they don't anymore, you don't even need to keep changing to trigger this.

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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by mercer on Saturday May 11, 2019 @03:10PM (#19887857)
I really hope you're right, but who's to say Google might not be one of the few that manages to correctly figure out how far they can go based on their historically unprecedented amount of data? I wouldn't rely on it, either way.
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