Interesting Neil Degrasse Tyson

[LotusBud]

comments.

Paraphrasing:

There are three kinds of truth: personal, political, and objective.

Search engines generate confirmation bias. There is no way to find objective truth with online searches.

Thoughts?

 

[Admin.]

I think there is a grain of truth about the confirmation bias in search engines, that is how they are designed to work...If I am an avid cook and I do lots of searches on food related issues and recipes etc, Google will learn my interests and try to model my searches for what it perceives my interests to be. So if I look up "Marbled Rye" for instance I am not given links to marbled wall coverings etc

 

[LotusBud]

I think there is a grain of truth about the confirmation bias in search engines, that is how they are designed to work...If I am an avid cook and I do lots of searches on food related issues and recipes etc, Google will learn my interests and try to model my searches for what it perceives my interests to be. So if I look up "Marbled Rye" for instance I am not given links to marbled wall coverings etc

Google keeps track of everything we do, everywhere it can track us, and it surely filters our search results. I like to use duck duck go. All this tracking shit just gives me the creeps.

 

[The Prowler]

comments.

Paraphrasing:

There are three kinds of truth: personal, political, and objective.

Search engines generate confirmation bias. There is no way to find objective truth with online searches.

Thoughts?

The problem with someone like you paraphrasing is that you will likely make mistakes because you do not fully understand what he said in the first place.

 

[Lily]

Google keeps track of everything we do, everywhere it can track us, and it surely filters our search results. I like to use duck duck go. All this tracking shit just gives me the creeps.

My conservative partner felt the same way, he recently discovered that they use google themselves and was a bit disillusioned.

I don't worry about these things because of the very existence of NSA.

Privacy is an illusion in modern times.

 

[Admin.]

Google keeps track of everything we do, everywhere it can track us, and it surely filters our search results. I like to use duck duck go. All this tracking shit just gives me the creeps.

Just a thought, sometimes If I am looking for something and I am not finding in a search, sometimes rewording my search terms will produce a better result.

 

[LotusBud]

Just a thought, sometimes If I am looking for something and I am not finding in a search, sometimes rewording my search terms will produce a better result.

Yes. True. They're still tracking you, though.

 

[Lily]

Just a thought, sometimes If I am looking for something and I am not finding in a search, sometimes rewording my search terms will produce a better result.

They seem to list all the shit the people that advertise with them first.

 

[The Prowler]

My conservative partner felt the same way, he recently discovered that they use google themselves and was a bit disillusioned.

Anyone know who "they" are is Fat @Lily's sentence?

No?

Because she is a bad communicator.

 

[LotusBud]

They seem to list all the shit the people that advertise with them first.

That's the most benign part of what they do, imo.

 

[Admin.]

Anyone know who "they" are is Fat @Lily's sentence?

No?

Because she is a bad communicator.

You don't track conversations very well at all. You should look into why that is.

 

[LotusBud]

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