Re:Google: “There has been a shift in our thinking…”
by bluebaby on Thursday March 14, 2013 @07:11PM
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What a paranoid post. Google "manipulates" results for financial gain? The assumption that there is a pure solution to a search query is ignorant of search and information retrieval, which fundamentally rely on human-curated content.
PageRank also relied on "Human-curated content". In fact, anything having to do with natural language processing does so in some way.
This is a far cry from saying that Google is hand-tuning search results. In fact, Google has only begun to do so recently as a response to government-orders to hide terms relating to media piracy or Chinese politics. This post displays a lot of romantic confusion about the effects of social media on web search.
Re:Google: “There has been a shift in our thinking…”
by auctiontheory on Thursday March 14, 2013 @05:55PM
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Google must believe that the barrier to entry is now (only) brand awareness, rather than product (search) quality. Let's see whether that remains true forever.
PageRank also relied on "Human-curated content". In fact, anything having to do with natural language processing does so in some way.
This is a far cry from saying that Google is hand-tuning search results. In fact, Google has only begun to do so recently as a response to government-orders to hide terms relating to media piracy or Chinese politics. This post displays a lot of romantic confusion about the effects of social media on web search.