Posted on 04/25/2017 8:36:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Google has sprinkled some new ingredients into its search engine in an effort to prevent bogus information and offensive suggestions from souring its results.
The changes have been in the works for four months, but Google hadn’t publicly discussed most of them until now. The announcement in a blog post Tuesday reflects Google’s confidence in a new screening system designed to reduce the chances that its influential search engine will highlight untrue stories about people and events, a phenomenon commonly referred to as “fake news.”
“It’s not a problem that is going to go all the way to zero, but we now think we can stay a step ahead of things,” said Ben Gomes, Google’s vice president of engineering for search.
Besides taking steps to block fake news from appearing in its search results, Google also has reprogrammed a popular feature that automatically tries to predict what a person is looking for as a search request as being typed. The tool, called “autocomplete,” has been overhauled to omit derogatory suggestions, such as “are women evil,” or recommendations that promote violence.
Google also adding a feedback option that will enable users to complain about objectionable autocomplete suggestions so a human can review the wording. …
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So is “obama moron weakling” an offensive search?
How about “Hillary boiled cabbage urine farts”?
so what’s the deal here? Is Google wanting to censor our news; censor the information we are seeking??? Do they want to limit what we can search for??? Do they want us to only see liberal oriented news/opinion?? Why the heck are they even going down this road???
0bama has big ears is NOT fake news.
Who gets to decide what’s ‘fake’ and what’s not? HMMMMMM?..................
We all know why. And their long collaboration with our enemies abroad is just the tip of the iceberg.
This makes their old “miserable failure” and “Fremch military victories” search bombs look legitimate by contrast.
Use Bing, Dog Pile or any number of other search engines. If Google keeps this up, people will just stop using it.................
“The tool, called “autocomplete,” has been overhauled to omit derogatory suggestions, such as “are women evil,” or recommendations that promote violence.”
Search still works!
About 137,000,000 results (0.44 seconds)
The search does, yes. But does it pop up in the autocomplete, which shows suggestions before you make the search?
“are wom” >>>> ‘are wombats mean’
So they’re going to block anything that comes from CNN?
Who gets to decide what’s ‘fake’ and what’s not? HMMMMMM?..................
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Well, I tried “Obama is a” and the first suggestion was ‘savage’, so that was not so bad.
Frequently, when I pull up Breitbart on my Verizon Galaxy 5, my phone starts vibrating and notice of “VIRUS” pops onto my screen and I have to turn off phone to stop it.
Is that Verizon? Or?
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