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Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates.

The leaked documents touch on topics like what kind of data Google collects and uses, which sites Google elevates for sensitive topics like elections, how Google handles small websites, and more. Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives, according to Fishkin and King.

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[–] [email protected] 370 points 8 months ago (19 children)

Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives

I would have never guessed that.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Crazy how self regulation always winds up like this. By crazy I mean predictable of course.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

You're supposed to move to a different search engine for the market to work. I already have, have you?

[–] Mnemnosyne 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I did years ago when Google started censoring my search results even with safe search off.

Unfortunately Bing is doing it too now and I can't find a search engine that isn't, though I would love to learn about one that isn't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

This is the issue. they're all shit. Even kagi often fails to deliver useful results. Its the best of the bunch but AFAIK their own crawler is very reliant on google.

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