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Google Bombs Are Our New Normal (wired.com)
mirandakatz writes: Tech companies' worst crises used to come in the form of pranks like Google bombs: Users figured out how to game search results, such as when a search for "miserable failure" turned up links to information about then-president George W. Bush. Today, in the era of fake news and Russian interference, that's basically our new normal -- but as Karen Wickre, a former communications lead at companies like Google and Twitter, points out, tech companies' approaches to dealing with the new breed of crises haven't evolved much since the age of Google bombs. Wickre suggests a new, collaborative approach that she dubs the "Federation," writing that "No single company, no matter how massive and wealthy, can hire its way out of a steady gusher of bad information or false and manipulative ads...The era of the edge case -- the exception, the outlier—is over. Welcome to our time, where trouble is forever brewing."
Good grief msmash. The Russians! nonsense is just embarrassing at this point.
Hard to believe this was back in 2004, but it worked!
Trolling is a art,
judging by all the SEO stuff happening right now. Did Google stop hiring smart people?
Google bombs have been common for years now. If anything, they're the old normal.
Searching for "Miserable Failure", George W. Bush still dominates the top results.
Can we finally conclude the result is legitimate?
If you don't want a search for "More evil than Satan" to land directly on your company homepage, history has shown that the best way to avoid this scenario is making a minimal effort to be less evil than Satan.
Google, Twitter, and Facebook are not in the business of delivering news. They are in the business of delivering you to advertisers. They don't care about fake news so long as the eyeballs keep coming. If you look to corporations for unbiased reporting then you get the news you deserve.
"Today, in the era of fake news and Russian interference..."
Presumably this should read
"Today, in the era of fake news about Russian interference..."
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
She's missing the case where Google, Twitter, etc. are the SOURCE of the false/misleading information, and it is THEM who are "Google bombing" search results.
George W. Bush was a progressive masquerading as a conservative. He did more for eroding American freedoms than any other president. As far as he's concerned he was a resounding success.
Get the original book on bomb making.
You're just jealous because they took your job because they could do it faster and cheaper than you could.
So, repeating something enough times eventually makes it true?
No thanks, that's not how things are supposed to work.
So the "russian interference" only started for this election and before it was all flowers and sunshine?
As long as you educate well enough your population, people will understand the different messages that is aired and choose well. But if someone was purposefully dumbing down education, I could see why having external messages be a problem.
Just a quick really interesting interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
capcha: matrix
Fitting I'd say
... because you elected an unprepared guy for such a dangerous post.
Let that be a lesson so that you vote with greater care in the future and never repeat that same mistake again.
Oh, wait...
Deyyyy tewkkkk ourrr jerbbzzzzz?
.. we all know it's a line of BS being blown out of proportion to get people to support stupidity against Russia.
My friend looks up my social media account through google and slowly they got pushed to the second page. I mentioned search results had started to suck since last year and he told me about my social media stuff and it made me wonder why google's search has been worse and worse. Russians I guess, they did it all!!!
in the era of fake news
We heard "Faux News!!!111!!!" as a dismissal for anything that was reported that they didn't like for years and now the left is upset because the right is doing the same thing? Wow. Just wow. The left is crazier than most of us thought. They're digging their own hole. This "crisis" was brought about by their own hand and I'm glad to see it. The sooner we get a bit of integrity the sooner we can stop this race to the bottom.
It could be a pile of shit out of someone's asshole!
We'll quickly realize that we cannot trust the information we see. Google is not infallible, and the value that it has to us is proportional to the reliability of its results. If someone invents a better search engine that produces better results, we'll use that instead. But I think it is unlikely that we'll come across a perfect system for managing information and discerning the difference between fact, opinion and intentional deception.
Before the Internet Age we had Newspapers. They had the same problems and never did solve them either. We trusted newspaper articles up to a point because we also know there were mistakes and intentional abuse in the past. (now you shouldn't trust newspaper, it's a dying medium and it could start becoming erratic soon.)
Trust no one is an impractical philosophy. Trust, but verify is how a pragmatic approaches this problem of misinformation and disinformation that has been with us since ancient times.
...that the OP mentioned "fake news" and "Russian Interference" in the same sentence inveighing against bad information spread widely.
-Styopa
half of what I see, nothing of what I hear, and only some of what I read without checking and questioning.
but then I've been around a looong time.
and I've been burned, hence my skepticism
In the initial stages of a disaster you will get extremely detailed information.
It will be wrong
how long this lasts depends on many factors
You must be stating facts. They try to hide your posts with minus mods and JustAnotherOldGuy is your proof https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11228639&cid=55361525/
Jews believe this of others they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Khazar/Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple):
Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.
George Soros who funds groups to create division in the USA?? A jew. One who sold his own jew people into death for the nazis. Zucker @ CNN is another frying publicly for lying about "russians" and John Bonifield a producer @ CNN said it is bs. Van Jones did also.
What World-famous Men have said About the Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYPzKNQUE0/
Harvey Weinstein the child molester tops it all off.
There are three types of people who call themselves Jews:
1. True Torah [Sephardic] Jews: these are the descendants of Prophet Jacob-Israel (Jacobites or Israelites) (about 5%-10% of all Jews)
2. Khazarian or Ashkenazi Jews: these are the descendants of a Turkic idol/phallic worshiping tribe who migrated to Russia in the 7th Century A.C. and whose nobility converted to Judaism in the 8th Century A.C. and now inhabit mostly Europe. (about 90%-95% of all Jews)
3. Zionist Jews: these are the ones from the 2 above who are pretending to be Jews for political reasons but whoâ(TM)re are actually Illuminists-Luciferian-Masonic-Satanists as Harold Wallace Rosenthal admits in this interview.
They are led by the neo-Pharisees (occult-priest-banklords). They want to establish a Zionist Luciferian state from the Nile to the Euphrates from where they plan to rule the Earth. The new Israeli Supreme Court funded by the Rothschilds Banklords is full of Masonic Symbols, just like the B.I.S. Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, which is the Mother of All Private Central Banks.
The hexagram symbol on the Israeli flag is the ancient Star of Moloch, a Satanic-Baal deity to which people were sacrificed. There is no such thing as a Star of David which the modern Jews have been fooled into believing; however, the True Torah Jews are not fooled by the Zionists Illuminatis and you can visit their websites for more info .
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a wa