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Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
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#42My respect level for Boris actually went up a few notches after reading about this :)
Indeed. The "lovable bumbling fool" image he puts across is a very conscious choice on his part. Despite what you think about his politics (and I'm personally not a fan) you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think.
> you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think.
In playing the political game at least, definitely so. Lots of reports from coworkers (especially from the Foreign Office) that he is genuinely as clueless as he comes across when it comes to other elements of his job.
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#43My respect level for Boris actually went up a few notches after reading about this :)
Indeed. The "lovable bumbling fool" image he puts across is a very conscious choice on his part. Despite what you think about his politics (and I'm personally not a fan) you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think.
I think Johnson’s distinguishing trait that enables him to do this, is a lack of shame more than anything else.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed. The "lovable bumbling fool" image he puts across is a very conscious choice on his part. Despite what you think about his politics (and I'm personally not a fan) you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think.
> you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think. In playing the political game at least, definitely so. Lots of reports from coworkers (especially from the Foreign Office) that he is genuinely as clueless as he comes across when it comes to other elements of his job.
Indeed, he is completely unproven in any matters of statecraft and has been founding wanting in actual matters of substance on many occasions.
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#45> I wonder why nobody else is willing to do this? Well there was a story on french president Macron who was apparently thinking of renaming the ENA (one if not the most prestigeous uni in France) to "Institut Superieur des Fonctionaires", ISF in short ( http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/l-ena-remplacee-par... sorry it's in French). But ISF is also the short name of the tax on the richest, which he has gotten r…
Describing the ENA as a university is misleading [0]: its does no research and does grant degrees [1]. All "students" are civil servant in training that have been hired through the civil service examinations and will go on to their jobs. They spend more than half of their "studies" working already to learn on the job. It's like saying Parris Island is a university.
[0] In my opinion, this characterization as university stenghtens (a bit) its critics. After all, how come one small university has an almost monopoly on high ranking civil servants and then on top politicians? It should not be the case. But if you see it as a civil servant training program it is obvious how it comes to be - it's like wondering why so many US Army officers come form West Point - well, that's because West Point is there to produce US Army officers.
[1] Well it does in partnership with universities, but not for its main civil servant training program
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#46My respect level for Boris actually went up a few notches after reading about this :)
Indeed. The "lovable bumbling fool" image he puts across is a very conscious choice on his part. Despite what you think about his politics (and I'm personally not a fan) you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k448JqQyj8
yes, he is much smarter than he looks.
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#47Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#48This is just silly. The last thing anyone would know about Arcuri is that she was very briefly a model. It would be like searching for info about (UK supreme court president) Lady Hale by Googling “barmaid”.
Try instead searching for “Boris Johnson technology lessons”, or indeed “Boris Johnson thigh”. Has his team SEO’d that yet?
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#49The 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 fro…
> its results are such garbage Whenever people complain about DDG's search results I am always a bit baffled. It works 95% of the time for me and that 5% is occurs when I am searching for the answer to some obscure bug. I know this is your word against mine but "garbage" is a bit of an exaggeration.
> 5% is occurs when I am searching for the answer to some obscure bug
I think these are a majority of my searches, hence I had to switch back to google as DDG was almost never finding me any relevant result.
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#50> 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
Because empirically, it doesn't work. The front page of google for [Boris Johnson bus] has stories about:
- The failure of a busmaker
- The brexit bus advert
- The suspicion that his 'model bus' answer was this ploy.