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"What has the Church gained if it is popular, but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?" - A.W. Tozer
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostMy own informal test showing a curious discrepancy between Google and other popular search engines:
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The same sort of thing happens with "anti clinton"
And with the other engines, the completion kicks in after hill or clin whereas even with the entire phrase completed nothing shows on google.
If you go ahead and hit <CR>, it does bring up some results. I didn't look to see how complete they are.
Seems like something to toss to a news outlet and see if they run with it. I would expect some back peddling from the guys at google.
I'm not particularly fond of crow ...
JimLast edited by oxmixmudd; 10-10-2018, 01:54 PM.My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1
If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26
This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19
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Originally posted by oxmixmudd View PostI got very similar results MM. That is a bit disturbing to say the least.
The same sort of thing happens with "anti clinton"
And with the other engines, the completion kicks in after hill or clin whereas even with the entire phrase completed nothing shows on google.
If you go ahead and hit <CR>, it does bring up some results. I didn't look to see how complete they are.
Seems like something to toss to a news outlet and see if they run with it. I would expect some back peddling from the guys at google.
I'm not particularly fond of crow ...
JimThe ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by oxmixmudd View PostSeems like something to toss to a news outlet and see if they run with it.
Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostMy own informal test showing a curious discrepancy between Google and other popular search engines:
"anti trump" only gives "anti trump newspaper" when I use the Swedish version. When I use Google in English it gives a similar, but slightly different autocomplete list than the one in the screenshots you posted.
"anti hillary" doesn't yield anything on either version, but "crooked hi" did give a 2 suggestions involving Hillary when I used the Swedish version.
"hillary clinton hea" gave the same results when using the English version. When I typed it in on the Swedish version I got a shorter list with only 5 items, but they were all suggestions that appeared in the list I got from the English version of the site.
I was also using the .fi version of the search engine. Whether using .fi or .com makes any difference I don't know.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostPrior to the 2008 election Google immediately shut down (as in not allowing them to advertise or appear in searches) a Hillary Clinton parody site saying that they do not allow such things as it may confuse voters. That of course brought forth questions of why they were allowing the same sort of parody sites that were targeting leading Republicans candidates seeking their party's nomination to advertise on Google for nearly two months.
Then of course there was this on Google just a week before the California primaries where they listed "Nazism" as the ideology of the California Republican party
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They claim it wasn't their fault but it's hardly the only time
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This time when you used the search engine to look up the National Federation of Republican Women (the largest Republican women’s group) the "knowledge panel" described them as the "National Federation of Republican Enablers."
Of course Google blamed Wikipedia but while it is true that back in mid October someone did change "women" to enablers" on the Wikipedia page it was only like that for a couple hours before being fixed. Google, OTOH, put it up and left it there for almost a month, ignoring complaints and only yanking it yesterday as news stories started appearing about it.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostPrior to the 2008 election Google immediately shut down (as in not allowing them to advertise or appear in searches) a Hillary Clinton parody site saying that they do not allow such things as it may confuse voters. That of course brought forth questions of why they were allowing the same sort of parody sites that were targeting leading Republicans candidates seeking their party's nomination to advertise on Google for nearly two months.
Then of course there was this on Google just a week before the California primaries where they listed "Nazism" as the ideology of the California Republican party
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They claim it wasn't their fault but it's hardly the only time
[ATTACH=CONFIG]30375[/ATTACH]Originally posted by rogue06 View PostGoogle is at it again.
This time when you used the search engine to look up the National Federation of Republican Women (the largest Republican women’s group) the "knowledge panel" described them as the "National Federation of Republican Enablers."
Of course Google blamed Wikipedia but while it is true that back in mid October someone did change "women" to enablers" on the Wikipedia page it was only like that for a couple hours before being fixed. Google, OTOH, put it up and left it there for almost a month, ignoring complaints and only yanking it yesterday as news stories started appearing about it.
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[*The story continues at the link above*]
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostGoogle is at it again.
This time when you used the search engine to look up the National Federation of Republican Women (the largest Republican women’s group) the "knowledge panel" described them as the "National Federation of Republican Enablers."
Of course Google blamed Wikipedia but while it is true that back in mid October someone did change "women" to enablers" on the Wikipedia page it was only like that for a couple hours before being fixed. Google, OTOH, put it up and left it there for almost a month, ignoring complaints and only yanking it yesterday as news stories started appearing about it.
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I'm quoting the first post from this thread solely for its irony value, because as we are all well aware by now, Google's search results are, in fact, "rigged".
Originally posted by oxmixmudd View PostGoogle search is 'Rigged' I tell ya, 'Rigged'.
What a nutcase.
https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/28/tec...ged/index.html
So The Conspiracy Theorist in Chief has now come out and said that Google search is rigged because it mostly points to bad news articles about him.
This can't be legal he says, and gosh darn it, he's going to do something about it!
So now our dictator wanna be doesn't like the fact that a search engine designed around statistical parameters that algorithmically determine what are the most commonly searched for or read hits to a give random search criteria tends to pull up bad news about him. And so it 'must be rigged' and he's going to see if he can force them to 'comply' and not do that.
Hmm, discounting the fact he couldn't understand how a google search algorithm works if you gave him 10 years to try to figure it out, there is nothing going on here that relates to google. It's like saying the fact a search on Superhero movies turns up more hits are Marvel Movies than DC movies means google search is rigged.
But what IS scary is he wants to try to punish google, to 'make it illegal'. Once again showing his 'Dictator wanna be' motivations and his complete lack of understanding of what are the standards, morals, and driving philosophies that made this nation the great nation it is.
Oh, and it's not just YouTube...
"Speaking of conspiracy theories" indeed.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Mountain Man, yesterdayUnnamed sources = fake newsOriginally posted by Mountain Man, todayJorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Originally posted by Roy View PostSo this is fake news.
Of course there's a lot more to this than just an anonymous source...Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Roy View PostSo this is fake news.The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostMM cited an article that cited an anonymous source?Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom
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I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist
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YouTube admits they tampered with search results but insist they only did it because the pro-life videos were deemed "misinformation".
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/...isinformation/Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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