Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
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Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#2Love tech in general but this new psy ops style of leadership that is becoming popular in the west makes me uneasy. Obviously politicians will spin things as always but the tech leveraged version of that is a little ominous
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#3This is actually fascinating (even if it may not be the behavior we expect from our elected leaders). He did the same thing in June where he gave a completely baffling interview [1] about how his hobby was painting models of buses out of used fruit crates.
But people suspected [2] then that it might be a similar strategy, to monopolize the results for "boris johnson bus" searches.
I wonder why nobody else is willing to do this? It seems like it works, and it keeps you in the news...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLcCZjDoWTQ
[2] https://gizmodo.com/did-boris-johnson-ramble-about-model-bus...
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#4They talked about this on John Olliver. They had a bizarre interview where he brought up a story about a bus and people think it is to salt the keywords of Google search to not show a campaign bus that highlighted something like free health care or something like that.
Edit: user "sincerely" has a better description and links
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#5> I wonder why nobody else is willing to do this?
Because it makes you look like a fool. Doesn’t mean it won’t work though. Bojo apparently targetting the segment for whom this kind thing goes over their heads
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#6Not the first time he has been accused of this https://twitter.com/beffernieblack/status/114380892107484364...
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#7So appalled but... So impressed!
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#8I'm shocked that this works on a technical level, simply because a lot of words we use are ambiguous, so Google's algorithms are impressively good at picking up what we're really searching for.
I'm constantly amazed to see the correct search results, and almost never have to add clarifying terms, even when I have to admit that I am being quite ambiguous.
So I never would have expected this to be possible, let alone exploitable.
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#9The funnier thing to me is the people in the thread talking about how DuckDuckGo finds the "right" results.
DuckDuckGo is just Yahoo. I think the results are something like 99.9% the same, so whatever is the 0.1% they add, when I did the search, it results in maybe a slight difference in link ordering.
The reason it finds the "right" results is also the same reason its results are such garbage. And this is coming from someone whose default search is DuckDuckGo.
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