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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: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 30 2016, @11:39PM
If Google's top search results regarding Jews are negative then either Google's algorithms are biased against Jews, or the majority of the searches regarding Jews are in a negative context.
And if you've met a few of them, or are at least annoyed by how many poorly-acting and/or unfunny ones magically make it to popular stardom or the corporate boardroom through nepotism, then you'd be inclined to believe the latter.
That's why Google is so fun. In Translate you can type in something "ooga booga looga oo oo" and it will autodetect Somalian and translate some if not all words.
Like I've been saying this whole time, "life is not politically correct." When you rely on the input of the world's people to train your AI, the results are humiliating to some and utterly hilarious to others.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @11:47PM
So I typed in "Ethanol_fueled" into Google, and I got a "racist not found" message.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:11AM
Whats with all these trolls following ethanol anyway? You make him look rational in comparison.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday December 31 2016, @05:23AM
A king needs his court....
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday December 31 2016, @02:02AM
Confirmed it goes for Somali, but the only thing it attempts to translate winds up as “which.” So for shits and giggles I punched in “Which witch is which?” and got “Waa kuwee saaxirad taasoo ah?” Wikipedia provides a sample of Somali speech [wikimedia.org] along with phonology [wikipedia.org] and the various writing systems [wikipedia.org] used, notably the Somali Latin alphabet [wikipedia.org].