Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick

Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by enriquto on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:22AM (#23610177)

I don't believe the graphs that appear here. Trying it myself I obtain a very different thing. For example, from "matlab vs." the second completion is "octave", nowhere to be seen in tfa.

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Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by teach on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:28AM (#23610207)

Google results are "bubbled" based on the search profile they have on all of us, but I don't think it makes this technique any less useful.

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Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by enriquto on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:36AM (#23610245)

This google "feature" is really annoying. I have a private firefox window cookies specific for google searches to mitigate this effect. Yet it is still there.

While the visualizations are cool, I'm a bit afraid of how much of the displayed word cloud is a visualization of the "bubble" that the author lives in. It would be cool to see how different these graphs are on each of our computers!

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Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by foreigner on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:00AM (#23610377)

Google has a URL parameter to turn the personal search feature off.

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Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by enriquto on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:10AM (#23610427)

Sure, but it does not really work. It still tries to infer your search "preferences" from your IP, and whatnot.

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Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by mikkom on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:06AM (#23612779)

And there is a reason why the bubble is still there even in private browsing..

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7jvvp/google-sued-tracki...

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Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by caf on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:24AM (#23612917)

It looks to me like that graph was produced using k=3 for the k_edge_subgraphs() pruning step, and likely the suggestions for "octave" only included one or two other ML-related terms (because they are crowded out by musical terms).

(For me the "octave vs" query gives "matlab", "Python", "pitch", "rhythm discord" and "key" as the first 5 suggestions).

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Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by cswilly on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:00AM (#23626873)

I found "octave" is a direct connection of matlab using @anvaka's very cool tool: https://anvaka.github.io/vs/?query=matlab%20

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