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Last week an article from the BBC said:
Google has said it is 'thinking deeply' about ways to improve search, after criticism over how some results - including ones discussing the Holocaust - were ranked.
[...] Google - which processes five billion searches a day - was keen to come up with a solution that was broadly applicable across all searches, rather than just those that have been noticed by users.
"It's very easy to take a search here and there and demand Google change something," explained Mr Sullivan, "and then the next day you find a different search and say, 'why didn't you fix that?' "
This week we see the results of their efforts: Google has modified PageRank to surface "more high-quality, credible content on the web":
Google's technology was changed again after people spoke out about how typing in "are Jews evil" in the autocorrect function resulted in offensive terms. Also, when people searched "who runs Hollywood?" the result, "Jews," was scrubbed last year. Google said its algorithm incorrectly gave "authority" to a site that suggested so because it was linked to over and over again.
But Heidi Beirich, intelligence project director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said Tuesday that Google has a long way to go to "clean up its act." While searching for "did the Holocaust happen?" no longer shows one white supremacist site at the top, searching for "is the Holocaust real?" still provides a site up high that claims it's a hoax.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jdavidb on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:30AM
But Heidi Beirich, intelligence project director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said Tuesday that Google has a long way to go to "clean up its act."
So does the SPLC. They think everyone is a hate group. If you don't support a particular government agenda to benefit black people, you are a hate group. If you use a picture of a frog with Donald Trump, you're a hate group. I won't deny that Donald Trump is a hateful guy full of racist rhetoric but not everybody who delighted in being called "deplorable" for not being leftist is a racist.
And for those who are about to try to persuade me that "Mexican is not a race, therefore Trump is not a racist," fine, he's still a horse's butt.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:37AM
> So does the SPLC. They think everyone is a hate group
Blah, blah, blah.
How dare you call me out for being racist!?! I'm not racist, you're the racist!
Same old shit.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Saturday December 31 2016, @01:02AM
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @01:41AM
> Which is why people need to be allowed to leave each other the heck alone.
You are welcome to go live in the hills without the benefits of society.
But otherwise you are going to have to accept the rules of the society as the price for those benefits.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Saturday December 31 2016, @01:58AM
But otherwise you are going to have to accept the rules of the society as the price for those benefits.
That sounds great; I can't wait till everybody actually starts following the rules [youtube.com]. But the rule that seems to exist right now is "might makes right."
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @03:15AM
> [8 minute youtube video]
Not even going to watch that.
Linking to youtube videos without spelling out your specific issues is the cop out of a lazy mind. Its a way to feel smug and righteous without actually making even one point that can be addressed.
> But the rule that seems to exist right now is "might makes right."
Like how?
Because what you seem to be complaining about is the opposite - that the might of the "majority" of is being thwarted by minorities. Of course that's not the way it is at all, and it never has been. A section of the white population, perceiving Black pressure for change, misconstrues it as a demand for privileges rather than as a desperate quest for existence.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Saturday December 31 2016, @05:59AM
Because what you seem to be complaining about is the opposite - that the might of the "majority" of is being thwarted by minorities.
You've made a lot of wrong assumptions about what I'm complaining about and come to some really wrong conclusions. I am not complaining about minorities at all. I am pro-minority, pro-immigration, anti-Republican, anti-Donald Trump, and anarchist.
A section of the white population, perceiving Black pressure for change, misconstrues it as a demand for privileges rather than as a desperate quest for existence.
This has completely nothing to do with what I am saying.
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:23AM
You've made a lot of wrong assumptions about what I'm complaining about and come to some really wrong conclusions.
If you walk like a duck and talk like a duck, people are going to think you are a duck.
You've trotted out enough of the typical racist tropes to make anyone who has seen those tropes before conclude that you are indeed a racist. At best a concern-trolling racist. The kind of person who knows just one Dr King quotation, the one about not being judged by the color of their skin. Who's more interested in bending that quote to serve their libertarian fantasies about being "left alone" in a society designed to benefit themselves than they are in actually understanding what Dr King meant.
If you don't support a particular government agenda to benefit black people, you are a hate group.
A section of the white population, perceiving Black pressure for change, misconstrues it as a demand for privileges rather than as a desperate quest for existence.
This has completely nothing to do with what I am saying.
Sure.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Saturday December 31 2016, @03:27PM
You've trotted out enough of the typical racist tropes to make anyone who has seen those tropes before conclude that you are indeed a racist
The illiterate ones, sure.
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(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:02AM
But Heidi Beirich, intelligence project director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said Tuesday that Google has a long way to go to "clean up its act."
Google has all kinds of issues, but don't you have to be a little bit out there to accuse them of racism?
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday December 31 2016, @07:06AM
You can say "horse's ass" you know. We're allowed to swear here.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Saturday December 31 2016, @03:28PM
I'm more of a horse's butt kind of person. ;)
But the rest of you can feel welcome to fill in what I'm leaving out because he certainly deserves more and stronger epithets.
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(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Saturday December 31 2016, @07:25AM
It is a common meme that con-sultants and pharmaceutical companies do not exist to cure problems but to profit on the journey to 'manage disease'. So too do these pressure groups, who continue pushing their agendas even if the founding goals have been met. What profit is there in that?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @01:34PM
Yes, everyone who sees the world differently from you is actually a hypocrite.
You cracked the code for how to ignore any idea you disagree with.
You should apply for the job of drowning witches, you've got mad skillz.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Monday January 02 2017, @12:38AM
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