Comments on: Google Decided To Drop The Silly Answers, Not The Evil https://pcper.com/2022/08/google-decided-to-drop-the-silly-answers-not-the-evil/ A Leader in PC Hardware Reviews and News Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:51:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jeremy Hellstrom https://pcper.com/2022/08/google-decided-to-drop-the-silly-answers-not-the-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-217400 Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:51:37 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=272390#comment-217400 In reply to Ray mcsriff.

I’ll have to check out Presearch and SearX as I haven’t run into either yet.

From your comment I believe you do know exactly what I mean by disinformation and lies 😉

]]> By: Ray mcsriff https://pcper.com/2022/08/google-decided-to-drop-the-silly-answers-not-the-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-217392 Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:47:20 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=272390#comment-217392 Google (both ownership, leadership, and the rank-and-file) has a clear socio-political bias. I don’t trust them to decide what “misinformation” is (or whatever Jeremy is talking about as “weaponized”), or even what a lie is. I’m not looking for a Ministry of Truth when I want to search then Internet. I had been using DuckDuckGo for a while, until I found out about their AD deal with Microsoft (which, by the way, is why in their adverts you see them concentrate on the evils of Google, Facebook, etc, but not MS). Their CEO then decided to confuse the world by talking about “misinformation” effecting search rankings, then tried to backtrack. I now use Brave search mostly, but the best way to get good results is a meta search engine like Presearch, or the free and open source SearX, of which there are many instances. Can’t trust any one entity, and there’s a conundrum between what is appropriate to filter out of search results (like SPAM, or malware sites) and what is more debatable (SEO abuse, etc). “Misinformation” to me isn’t debatable though, whatever that may be. If it’s not SPAM, malware, and there’s no obvious SEO abuse going on, search engines should return the result just like any other site. At the very least, give people an opt-out or in on filtering of that nature.

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