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Google Seeks To Defuse Row With Russia Over Website Rankings (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google does not change its search algorithm to re-rank individual websites, it said in a letter to Russia's communications watchdog, after Moscow expressed concerns the search engine might discriminate against Russian media. The Roskomnadzor watchdog said earlier this month it would seek clarification from Google over whether it intentionally placed articles from Russian news websites Sputnik and Russia Today lower in search results. Responding to a question about Sputnik articles at a conference earlier in November, Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said Google was working to give less prominence to "those kinds of websites" as opposed to delisting them.
I'm soooo glad Google is standing up to Russia!
But we want your money and data please......
10 out of 10 read. Well said, would read again. I like especially the fact that you have a cohesive point and stick to the facts.
Moscow expressed concerns the search engine might discriminate against Russian media.
This should be filed under the "things to consider before you inject yourself into US politics" department.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
But if you buy really stupid ads on Facebook then it's COLD WAR MODE v2.0!
What did Eric Schmidt mean when he said: "“It’s basically RT and Sputnik. We’re well aware and we’re trying to engineer the systems to prevent it.” ?
It's pretty sad that we're now getting more "Russia narrative" submissions on the front page here at Slashdot than we are getting submissions about relevant stuff like Linux, programming, or sci-fi.
If we do a Slashdot search for "russia", the earliest story on the first page of results is from October 30, 2017.
If we do a Slashdot search for "linux", the earliest story on the first page of results is from October 21, 2017!
So that means we get subjected to significantly more stories about this "Russia narrative" than we get submissions having to do with Linux!
It's even worse when we do a Slashdot search for "programming". The earliest first page submission listed there is from October 19, 2017!
It's much worse when we do a Slashdot search for "scifi" (May 06, 2017) or a Slashdot search for "science fiction" (December 19, 2015).
I know, I know, some fools here will start with the "Russian agent" false accusations, and other nonsense like that. But the real issue is that Slashdot's quality has declined so severely that significantly more focus is now put on purely political stories than on anything having to do with technology or computing or software or Linux or programming or science fiction and anything interesting like that.
Slashdot has devolved into a political site that's more like the Huffington Post or Breitbart than it is like the focused tech/science/math/computing site it was during its glory days.
The whole reason Silicon Valley can afford to pay huge salaries and create cutting edge work is because what they create is scalable. The money is spent once but can be sold to consumers all over the world at a very low marginal cost of production. Whether that is Operating Systems or Electric Cars.
People all over the wold buy from the Microsofts and the Googles because they are considered apolitical. If these companies are seen as partisan and Patriotic than consumers and govts all over the world will pull a China and prop up local alternatives. Once the cheap marginal market goes away and its only the US Market you have left to sell too many ideas become non economic to execute . Once you cannot execute new ideas in Silicon Valley due to the cost, people with ideas will go away to cheaper locales to execute and you go into a downward spiral - fewer new ideas->fewer profitable IPOs -> fewer Angel funders ->Even fewer funding for new ideas-> fewer people moving to the Valley to execute->EVEN FEWER NEW IDEAS and so on.
**Life is too short to be serious**
...Google does not change its search algorithm to re-rank individual websites. They've never taken money to effectively censor information about things like the BP Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, have they?
Debate is a form of harassment. Do not question my truth.
Illuminists-Luciferian-Masonic-Satanists as Harold Wallace Rosenthal admits in this interview.
That interview never happened, and the "proof" of it was provided by Nazis after his execution by the Nazis (now operating under the name PLO).
Everyone hates the Jews. I've still never figured that one out. The only global conspiracy is the Capitalists, trying to install fascism/communism to take over the world.
Yes, communism is capitalism. Look at Cuba. "communist", but everything was not owned by a democratic government, but by a single man. Everything owned by a single man is capitalism. And that's the capitalism that is in the US.
How British.
Right, they don't "change their search algorithm", they can just hard-code re-rankings of individual websites.
Going to say that about Barbara Spectre (a jew) admitting jews are behind the muslim invasion of Europe? It's her live saying it.
Seems like Google is feeling invincible. Their only real revenue source is online advertising, so if coin mining replaces ads as a source of payment for content creators, they're going to have problems. Seems like Google power is peaking, sort of like Rockefeller right before oil pipelines made controlling railroad shipping irrelevant.
Maybe if they weren't such hives of scum and villainy, they wouldn't get targeted. Russia's efforts would be better spent addressing their own BS before worrying about ours. But we all know that's not their intent...
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"Communism is capitalism"
Nothing is everything. It's all labels. There's just 2 kinds of people: People who screw everyone else and are in need of being put between the buns of a hamburger and us victims. Why cant the crazed shooters and truck drivers eat them? Because they're dumb controlled sheep.
Of course you only hear this from the usual suspects on the alt-right: Breitbart, Alternet, Counterpunch, World Socialist Website, etc...
They're all alt-right now, along with feminists who support women and gays who oppose getting thrown off rooftops and Jews who oppose being exterminated from their own homeland. If you didn't get the memo, expect to lose your job and be blacklisted across Silicon Valley while they import foreigners to replace you.
Much of the news we read today is for generating clicks/eyeballs/ad revenue/polarizing discussion. I'd rather read a site dedicated to getting humanity off this rock through research and fundraising. Anybody know of one?
Russia is one of the few topics that brings out the anon troll army. The other topics I've noticed have this effect are net neutrality and systemd. It's almost as if some powerful people don't want some topics discussed.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
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 & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also):
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
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Google does not change its search algorithm to re-rank individual websites
Of course not, they just make their algorithms include the material they want omitted, that way they also catch similar material.
Maybe it's dangerous to delist or re-rank the web sites of people that have Nuclear weapons? Heck they may take a more cold war view on google employees.
Dude, your head is really messed out. You must be smoking something neurotoxic, you should stop before itâ(TM)s too late (though it looks like itâ(TM)s already pretty late for you). Maybe you should pop some antipsychotic meds then see the outcome - they may take you out of your delusions ? Good luck with your neurochemistry.
Just exactly whose communications are this authoritarian state dog watching?
fuck off ivan.
yeah, this *is* what happens when y'all fuck with us.
How soon before SJW want that "search algorithm to re-rank individual websites" magic for their party political projects?
No negative movie reviews around the time of a new movie release?
Blasphemy?
No news about illegal immigration?
No negative comments about Communist leadership?
Some books and authors have ideas and plots that need to be re-ranked?
Some movies need to be re-ranked?
Most of history needs to be hidden.
Images and movies of political leaders not officially issued by their party?
Comments about a politicians ability to give a long speech in public should not be easy to find?
Once the USA starts to re-rank sites, SJW will have a long list of sites with issues they want not found.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
2017 is the year of Russia on the desktop
Damn, this dude is woke af on the jq!
Old news: we've had that for the past two years at least.
You Russiaphobes has as much evidence as the anti-vaxxers or Chem Trailers do to back up their bullshit. You fell for one piss-poor psyop with the Iraq War, and now you're doing it again. If only Powell knew he could have skipped that presenting-faked-evidence-to-the-UN thing, and just made a bunch of anonymous claims in the CIA-funded WaPo.
Because people would just eat that shit up. With a spoon.