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Learning to Love the Panopticon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-seeing-eye dept.

mitd writes: "Cory Doctrow has written an insightful article about Google, search engines and how he stopped worrying."

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  1. incredibly short-term viewpoint by AdamBa · · Score: 4, Funny
    1) Google sucks. All search engines suck right now. Altavista may suck 99% and Google may only suck 97%, but they are all terrible, and will remain so until they can actually start to understand what a page is about. The author may bag on AI, and it it bad now, but it's the only hope for workable search engines in the future.

    2) What is this absolute crapola about how bytes are more reliable than allegedly "fragile" books? Does this tubesteak realize that there are 500 year old books that are completely legible, while 15-year-old electronic data is unreadable? Yeesh. The only bright spot is that this guy's ravings are in electronic form, so future generations won't have to worry about them.

    - adam