No, I didn't read blogs from dead people before, but I have read articles with a larger font size.
Google killed me
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Re: Google killed me
#92I believe this has been fixed for a while now. It was fixed by the time I reported this over a week ago, for example. If you see an error in a Knowledge Panel (the box on the right-hand side), look for the "Feedback / More info" link at the bottom of the box and then you can click next to a fact to report a problem. People do review those reports, and that's the fastest way to report an issue.
It has been corrected since then - the post is from February 28th, not sure why it's just now hitting HN. This isn't a real-time complaint.
You can always check the data in Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/m/09v5l5c?links&lang=en&hist...
Re: Google killed me
#93I believe this has been fixed for a while now. It was fixed by the time I reported this over a week ago, for example. If you see an error in a Knowledge Panel (the box on the right-hand side), look for the "Feedback / More info" link at the bottom of the box and then you can click next to a fact to report a problem. People do review those reports, and that's the fastest way to report an issue.
She probably already knows so is somewhat disrespectful that she has not update the entry saying that Google already fixed her public profile.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I loved it too, up until this part: "I’m reading Kafka’s Castle right now — which itself may kill me" Kafka is one of my favorite authors and The Castle is one of my favorite novels :( But a well-written essay nonetheless ;)
I was just watching this earlier. Had me in tears. http://www.theonion.com/video/pragues-franz-kafka-internatio...
omg! That was hilarious! Thanks for sharing that! :)
Re: Google killed me
#95She is complaining about how her "true" life doesn't reflect the facts that Google says about her. This was a problem before the internet, before computers, before TV even.
We have all been subjected to our public persona in high school or in our home town. It is not accurate. Sometimes, it is the complete opposite of the truth.
So, I don't know why this author thinks it should be different with Google. Google gets a lot of things right, it gets a lot of things wrong as well. I don't worry about what a search engine says about me.
I know what I am. I am not what Google says and I am not what my high school yearbook says either.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apologies. I posted this because it came up recently in a media blog [insert joke about media being slow]. So it was a manual fix that corrected the issue? I guess that makes since given that her Wikipedia entry didn't have the standardized birthdate listing (at least in the first line) until today ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy_Wilentz&ol... ). Would that fix alone been enough to fix her snippet?
I wonder how many of these items are manual fixes? It would be interesting to see the number of them adjusting the index.
This seems to be Google SOP for big data sets like this, and for the most part it works okay. The other obvious similarity is Maps. Pull what data you can from easily available sources, and then crowdsource the details or inaccuracies.
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#97Natural language parsing is not 100% accurate and can make mistakes - breaking news! All kinds of automated data collection such as this will have errors that need to be fixed manually by a human. This will be taken care of if/when we eventually have real artificial intelligence. The data parsing scripts Google and others use are fairly advanced, but they still break down to a couple rules and finding words in close…
> This will be taken care of if/when we eventually have real artificial intelligence Considering that "non-artificial intelligence" makes the same kind of mistakes, I find that an odd claim. Mistakes happen. Quite frankly far fewer of them happen in the modern world, due precisely to technology like this. What has changed is actually the converse: automation has become so good that we expect it to be flawless. No one…
AI make more mistakes than humans at some things, but only because, like humans, they are just beginning to understand. I might make similar mistakes reading articles written in German, because I am not yet fully fluent in the language. Similarly, NLP AI is currently not "fluent" in English.
Re: Google killed me
#98I believe this has been fixed for a while now. It was fixed by the time I reported this over a week ago, for example. If you see an error in a Knowledge Panel (the box on the right-hand side), look for the "Feedback / More info" link at the bottom of the box and then you can click next to a fact to report a problem. People do review those reports, and that's the fastest way to report an issue.
She probably already knows so is somewhat disrespectful that she has not update the entry saying that Google already fixed her public profile.
Given that she comes across as non-technical and not knowledgeable about how these things work, I think that's quite harsh. Maybe she simply hasn't checked her listing since the article was posted.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find perverse pleasure in your ironic error, i.e. a hole in your knowledge (or potentially typing skills) related to the distinction between "hole" and "whole".
I actually tried to imagine a hole-based knowledge graph... it sounds really interesting.
there would always be some holes in the graph