I don't care. I want BREXIT now, since the british voted for it. All these delays are poison for democracy. Hard brexit yesterday. And if the pro EU people want to join again, they can apply in 5 years if they manage to find a majority.
And now, let the downvotes come.
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?
#182Earlier 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.
Perhaps not, but I don’t think that’s going to help people who, say, live along the Irish border or who will be impacted by drug shortages. This isn’t just some kind of game.
If the problems of the working class are “hypothetical” (as they are to the elite ruling class basically everywhere) then it literally is a game. They see things like this as edge cases to be sort of muddled through later, because they’ve never known anyone who uses the public health system.
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#183This sounds like another silly conspiracy theory to me, what is most likely happening is the exact opposite. These cheap news websites will take some term relating to Boris Johnson, like Bus or Model, and engineer articles that will get clicks in order to generate advertising revenue. It's the cheap websites doing SEO based on popular Boris Johnson terms, and not Boris Johnson's team. I mean the risk of someone in hi…
> These cheap news websites will take some term relating to Boris Johnson, like Bus or Model, and engineer articles that will get clicks in order to generate advertising revenue.
The three websites mentioned are amongst the UK's biggest news websites, reporting on legitimate Boris-related news (ie his alleged affair with Arcuri and his rather farcical claim that he's a model of restraint). The claim in the tweet is that Boris used the wording 'model of restraint' to try to mask the other story, though if this is true it clearly didn't work very well. It's credible mostly because of the prior bus incident; it's actually a fairly reasonable explanation for Boris spouting what otherwise appeared to be contextless nonsense.
> One leak and his career would be over, I mean come on it does not make any sense.
Wait, you think _this_ would be the controversy to sink Boris Johnson? Really? Boris is now so unpopular that the people who still like him are largely almost unshakeable, but even before his recent troubles, this would not have moved the dial.
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#184This really raises the question of what news story involving 'bowling' and 'green' was around in early 2017.
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#185The most worrying for me? Even after countless updates to their algorithms, breakthrough AI and ML, breaking hundred of thousands of legit website each time, Google is still dumb enough to be tricked by such a simplistic tactics :-( Or is Google biased toward "official" speech (even from a really-not-trustable source) like Twitter is when it will allow BS from a President (because it's an official account so not subj…
> breaking hundred of thousands of legit website each time, Google is still dumb enough to be tricked by such a simplistic tactics Google wasn't tricked, it's intentional. Their business model is generating money from clicks. It's not showing you best results for what you search for. It's showing latest news, tragedy, and what people talk about. 10h old news? OLD, BORING. New shiny 2h young news? YEA, more clicks, cl…
Eh, so you want older news on this one but you probably want newer ones on others? I don't think this rant makes any sense.
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#186I don't care. I want BREXIT now, since the british voted for it. All these delays are poison for democracy. Hard brexit yesterday. And if the pro EU people want to join again, they can apply in 5 years if they manage to find a majority. And now, let the downvotes come.
What you're asking for is Brexit by fiat, the opposite of democracy. The reason it hasn't happened yet is precisely because of democracy. People can't agree. Everyone wants it their way, but everyone can't have their way. Someone must volunteer to be the loser.
If you had Brexit by fiat, it would have happened already.
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#187The 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 quite high.
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#188Just a reminder that Boris Johnson is not an elected leader.
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#189This sounds like another silly conspiracy theory to me, what is most likely happening is the exact opposite. These cheap news websites will take some term relating to Boris Johnson, like Bus or Model, and engineer articles that will get clicks in order to generate advertising revenue. It's the cheap websites doing SEO based on popular Boris Johnson terms, and not Boris Johnson's team. I mean the risk of someone in hi…
> These cheap news websites will take some term relating to Boris Johnson, like Bus or Model, and engineer articles that will get clicks in order to generate advertising revenue. The three websites mentioned are amongst the UK's biggest news websites, reporting on legitimate Boris-related news (ie his alleged affair with Arcuri and his rather farcical claim that he's a model of restraint). The claim in the tweet is t…
If he tried to use the sentence model of restraint to bury on Google results the stories about his affair with a model, it would never work because the front page of google has 10 results, surely both stories (model of restraint and affair stories) will rank in the top results.
At most, he might be able to divert some of the traffic from one article to the other, but no more.
If that is what people are accusing him, it might be true it's possible that he is being advised to use this political SEO strategy, to try to divert internet attention from one story to the other.
But the results would be unpredictable and marginal at best.
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#190Human SEO. What a clever tactic.
This is essentially adding noise to signal--what Trump does to the media, just a little more tech-savvy.
The steps: -An issue comes out that makes you look bad -You take a question and respond in a boring, non-memorable way -Then you go off on wild, ridiculous tangents that everyone guffaws at until the next news cycle.