Google Probably Knows What Crap Results Are

Re:Google Probably Knows What Crap Results Are by cobralibre on Monday January 03, 2011 @12:08PM (#2063774)

I'm not a Google expert either -- whatever that would mean -- but I've worked in large software organizations. My point was that the linked article naively conceptualizes Google as a unitary entity that either "knows" something or doesn't.

As to your point, a software engineering organization releases products that are the results of myriad goals and constraints (requirements, priorities, schedules, bugs, etc.). Products aren't merely reflections of what the engineers can or cannot do. So it's likely that the search team can filter crap results? Is that really all that we need to know before we decide that Google search is intentionally designed to profit from spam?

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Re:Google Probably Knows What Crap Results Are by jarin on Monday January 03, 2011 @12:22PM (#2063842)

I have a Ph.D. in Google and I can confirm definitively that Google's development processes are similar to any other large software company.

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Re:Google Probably Knows What Crap Results Are by jdminhbg on Monday January 03, 2011 @12:24PM (#2063851)

Whoa, I'm not saying that Google is intentionally profiting from spam. I don't think TFA is even saying that. I think the point is that filtering bad results doesn't seem to be a technical hurdle they can't leap, so we're eliminating one reason Google search results are frequently filled with spammy content farm sites.

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