Posted on 06/04/2024 6:28:45 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Google issued a statement, cautioning against assumptions based on "incomplete information."
What you need to know
Rand Fishkin of SparkToro received and published documents detailing Google Search's internal APIs, search ranking factors, and Google's data collection practices.
Some leaked information contradicts Google's public statements about search algorithms and ranking factors.
The documents were accidentally made public on GitHub from March 27 to May 7 and later indexed by a third-party service.
A massive leak of what seems to be thousands of internal documents offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of Google Search, suggesting that Google may have been misleading the public about its search engine operations for years.
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(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
the secret? C.I.A.
The article microsoft had waited 25 years to publish...
But all accusations are being released on MSN. “Google is politically biased” said MSN, representing bill gates, MSNBC.
The CIA is a secret?
Google needs to be broken up into several much smaller and completely independent companies.
They are, as is, uber Liberals/Marxist’s/Socialist’s manipulating public opinion.
This boosts the narrative they approve of, and diminishes the information they wish to hide.
Search on Google is a waste of time now.
Most interesting, real, true, incisive stuff appears to This Guy to be blocked or shadowbanned.
Never uses Google directly but uses Duck-Duck-Go which supposedly piggybacks on Google and thus partakes of it’s utter lameness.
DuckDuckGo uses Bing.
Startpage.com uses Google.
Bing any better than Google in this regard?
Google is a massive propaganda machine cleverly disguised as a search engine. It uses every opportunity possible to shift your thinking towards the left’s approved set of thoughts.
But cinema, TV, plays, musicals all do the same thing, but not on as great a scale. Movies are produced primarily to deliver a message, not to entertain. The entertainment is the vehicle that drags you into the story, allowing you to suspend your disbelief and thus accept the premise of the movie.
Yes, but Startpage, using Google, seems to behave a lot better than Google’s front-end, as well.
I don’t like that all major news stories are routed through MSN (for Microsoft), though. You have to dig to find the original website that same news article appeared on.
Both Bing and Google want to deanonymize you, which happens when visiting an MSN site, while having logged into Windows with a Windows account, with Bing/Microsoft. Of course, you know Google sees you when you arrive ar any site using its metrics/cookies, too.
Neither DuckDuckGo, nor Startpage, directly give your private information to Bing or Google, but since the search just happened, they could eventually tie your IP or cookies to you as “that guy who searched anonymously on Bing or Google, through DuckDuckGo or Startpage.
Do note Startpage has an excellent option called a proxy, which lets you virtually visit a website in their results, without ever getting cookies or having your IP logged. In essence, you are visiting the website on Startpage’s desktop browser, this way, sort of looking over their shoulder.
It has been apparent for at least the last 5 years that Google favors leftist new sources. This not only biases what news people see, but it also starves conservative news providers of essential add revenue. It may actually be breaking antitrust laws.
Well it must be a crapy program then, I've been using it sine it's rollout it's had the opposite effect of me. I guess their Jedi mind tricks don't work on me. Puny program.
I am in IT. It is impossible to know 100% of everything regarding every piece of software or hardware that exists so I have found over the years that search engines have been my friend in troubleshooting issues or implementing changes to existing infrastructure.
Over the past 5 years, Google has become basically useless. It doesn’t point you to the correct answers to anything regardless of how perfectly you craft your search prompts.
Enter ChatGPT....
I feel like it’s the 1990’s or 2000’s again where the answers to any question you ask are right at your finger tips.
Of course I wouldn’t use it for social, political or current event information but technological and even historical information I have found it very useful. Lots of times Wikipedia is edited in way to hide connections between historical events and people but there are ways you can ask ChatGPT where it will describe them. From there you can look up other sources to confirm.
Regarding historical information, I never believe ChatGPT 100% but I use it for leads on where to look next.
A secret society.
Seems like an opportunity for Elon Musk to start a search engine, initially to help search Twitter’s massive archives.
Enter ChatGPT....
I feel like it’s the 1990’s or 2000’s again where the answers to any question you ask are right at your finger tips.
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Roger that. I used to be able to select a few definitive words to find just what I wanted. Later, instead of facts, I got offers to sell me that stuff.
So I started asking How to ..., or when did ..., and could skip the sales pitches sometimes.
Now, the AI tools seem to do all the collecting, filtering, and summarizing (with footnotes and references). But not for political/social/etc.
One day I asked it if it could search inside Facebook. It told me to sign up and search myself.
I was hoping it could access facebook, linkedin, and others that I do not want to sign up for.
Just now, Perplexity, CHat, and claude are ALL too busy, with ‘lots and lots’ of questoins.
Oh.
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