You know this how? Because you were that guy?
Re:twitter/the-algorithm
by mellosouls on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:36PM
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A quick Google (ironically) confirms this has happened, beyond the anecdotal evidence of people (including me) who remember it on several occasions.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch...
I'm not making any comment on the theory in the article, but it has certainly happened.
Edit: more context in thread here:
Mellosouls posted a link to a toxic source, and the article doesn’t even have anything in it except empty speculation based on nonsense. Brutal. Either the psyops have reached HN or the level of intellectual honesty about these topics is trash. Or both.
Re:twitter/the-algorithm
by mellosouls on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:50PM
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I lifted the source indirectly from Google's own results (it was linked to from the Mail online), I have no idea of the general toxicity or otherwise of the website itself.
Re:twitter/the-algorithm
by mellosouls on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:57PM
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Update: here's a Twitter thread linked from Google's Tweet denying any bias in the incident. Make of it what you will.
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Re:twitter/the-algorithm
by dev_by_day on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:14PM
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Source needed, plenty of liberal disinformation gets into search results as well and all kind of spammy SEO bullshit. Google search results have been getting shittier across the board is my intuition on this, censorship is less relevant.
IMO they just stopped caring about accuracy along time ago and have shifted into "engagement" and recommendation based results instead of accurate ones. Now when you search for something and very few results come back or they think your search terms should be something else, your given a shitty recommendation instead of what you actually searched for.
It may not have been algorithmic, but it definitely happened.