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Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story by pierat on Saturday October 07, 2023 @11:30AM (#37802549)
"Remove it or we'll see you in court!"

Or

"Your search rankings are high. Sure'd be ashamed of you got deindexed."

(Google's likely response as 'relevant material')

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Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story by ludwik on Saturday October 07, 2023 @12:49PM (#37803299)
Or maybe simply "the information is demonstrably untrue and we can prove it"?
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Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story by pierat on Saturday October 07, 2023 @12:54PM (#37803355)
That's the nice way to cheat with AI. It takes a probabilistic set of inquiries to discern the truth.

And right now, I'm in my states capitol, looking for a restaurant... Using Google maps. And when I searched for restaurants, was given an advertised 'optimized' curated set of restaurants. And within walking distance, they're missing easily half of the restaurants.

Now, which half are they missing? The small one-off places just aren't here on a search. HOWEVER, if you zoom in all the way, then those less-indexed restaurants FINALLY show up.

I'm sitting in 1 of those deindexed eateries right now. So yeah, the article's true and has been for a while now.

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