Anonymous wrote:Google's anti-right bias is fairly well known. There's been more than a few internal leaks about the subject, and if you follow tech news, you are well familiar with them freaking out over these leaks. Whether or not they actually implemented bias or not is a different discussion, but it has been contemplated.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-workers-discussed-tweaking-search-function-to-counter-travel-ban-1537488472

Google's search results can get some wierd things that occur in the english language, but not in other languages.

Searching "american inventors" brings up mostly pictures of African American inventors. Same for "american couple", which would indicate that something with the search algorithim applies a weight to various terms, even if not directly searched. You see this a lot with google as it searches for what it thinks you want, rather than what you actually want. This can make it difficult to find the information you are really searching for.

Anonymous wrote:Google's anti-right bias is fairly well known. There's been more than a few internal leaks about the subject, and if you follow tech news, you are well familiar with them freaking out over these leaks. Whether or not they actually implemented bias or not is a different discussion, but it has been contemplated.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-workers-discussed-tweaking-search-function-to-counter-travel-ban-1537488472

Google's search results can get some wierd things that occur in the english language, but not in other languages.

Searching "american inventors" brings up mostly pictures of African American inventors. Same for "american couple", which would indicate that something with the search algorithim applies a weight to various terms, even if not directly searched. You see this a lot with google as it searches for what it thinks you want, rather than what you actually want. This can make it difficult to find the information you are really searching for.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, I just did it! Almost every image that appears is of Donald Trump. One top image is Don Jr and Eric, and a little further down is one of Kanye, and further down is one of Giuliani. Ha! The rest of the photo images are Trump.

So freaking hilarious!

That's because it's taking this news into account. Timing matters.

You think Congress and Trump realizes that?

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, I just did it! Almost every image that appears is of Donald Trump. One top image is Don Jr and Eric, and a little further down is one of Kanye, and further down is one of Giuliani. Ha! The rest of the photo images are Trump.

So freaking hilarious!

That's because it's taking this news into account. Timing matters.

Anonymous wrote:OMG, I just did it! Almost every image that appears is of Donald Trump. One top image is Don Jr and Eric, and a little further down is one of Kanye, and further down is one of Giuliani. Ha! The rest of the photo images are Trump.

So freaking hilarious!

Anonymous wrote:OMG, I just did it! Almost every image that appears is of Donald Trump. One top image is Don Jr and Eric, and a little further down is one of Kanye, and further down is one of Giuliani. Ha! The rest of the photo images are Trump.

So freaking hilarious!

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Anonymous wrote:Actually, it's just a series of tubes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/the-internet-is-in-fact-a-series-of-tubes/2011/09/20/gIQALZwfiK_blog.html?utm_term=.fca82067112d

OMG, I had not read that

Anonymous wrote:Actually, it's just a series of tubes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/the-internet-is-in-fact-a-series-of-tubes/2011/09/20/gIQALZwfiK_blog.html?utm_term=.fca82067112d

In a House Judiciary Committee hearing today, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was asked to explain why a Google image search for “idiot” turned up pictures of Donald Trump — and whether that was a case of intentional bias.

The question came from Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who was trying to refute the idea that Google is politically manipulating search results. “Right now, if you google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. I just did that,” she said. “How would that happen?”

Pichai offered a long, general explanation of how Google search works:

Any time you type in a keyword, as Google we have gone out and crawled and stored copies of billions of [websites’] pages in our index. And we take the keyword and match it against their pages and rank them based on over 200 signals — things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how other people are using it. And based on that, at any given time, we try to rank and find the best search results for that query. And then we evaluate them with external raters, and they evaluate it to objective guidelines. And that’s how we make sure the process is working.

“So it’s not some little man sitting behind the curtain figuring out what we’re going to show the user?” Lofgren asked sarcastically.