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Re: Who'll be the next president – Google Search

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Post by higherpurpose » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 9:18 AM UTC

The dangers of having a machine give you the "right answer". This isn't that different from that other "right answer" in Google about dinosaurs:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/05/26/why-is-google-givin...

All this teaches us is to take Google's first answer with a huge grain of salt, if not almost immediately discard it in favor of further research, even when there's a "simple" question like "how tall is something" (remember Google got Stephen Colbert's height wrong as well: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/21/google-stephen-colb...).

Re: Who'll be the next president – Google Search

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Post by popeshoe » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 9:18 AM UTC

While it's kinda funny, I think it's made pretty clear that text is a summary generated from the first search result that is clearly linked below, only a moron would consider this an endorsement of Hillary by Google.

Re: Who'll be the next president – Google Search

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Post by k-mcgrady » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 9:24 AM UTC

joelrunyon wrote: post #7

visakanv wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do people really think like this? All you have to do is "pay your dues" and you "deserve" it instead of voting on issues, track record & potential to make real change? Yes. Source: Click around the Facebook comments of any substantially large digital publication. Tonnes of people don't even vote. Of those that do, most vote for the parties they're already loyal to. Of the few that are in the middle, most decide acc…

I get voting on party - what scares me is voting on someone because they "paid their dues" - which is especially mind boggling when you look at people's approval ratings of those same candidates in their previous jobs (typically congress - which is hanging out at around 16%).

Voting on party scares me - especially in a system where there are only two.

Re: Who'll be the next president – Google Search

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Post by draugadrotten » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 9:24 AM UTC

kattuviriyan wrote: post #10

Some will need a screenshot of the query at some point: http://i.imgur.com/SEq4GW9.png

My search result is quite different.

http://i.imgur.com/uDN14bw.png

Re: Who'll be the next president – Google Search

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Post by lucb1e » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 9:26 AM UTC

draugadrotten wrote: post #14

kattuviriyan wrote: post #10

Some will need a screenshot of the query at some point: http://i.imgur.com/SEq4GW9.png

My search result is quite different. http://i.imgur.com/uDN14bw.png

I think that is why kattuviriyan added the screenshot: I get the same as you, it's probably a country-based feature (or what DuckDuckGo calls bubbling).

Re: Who'll be the next president – Google Search

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Post by joelrunyon » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 9:32 AM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #13

joelrunyon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get voting on party - what scares me is voting on someone because they "paid their dues" - which is especially mind boggling when you look at people's approval ratings of those same candidates in their previous jobs (typically congress - which is hanging out at around 16%).

Voting on party scares me - especially in a system where there are only two.

Sorry - that also scares me. What is even worse (in my opinion) is people voting on candidates based on last names (which seems to be the trend lately) - especially when that's seen or used as a positive aspect.

Re: Who'll be the next president – Google Search

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Post by DrStalker » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 9:33 AM UTC

glogla wrote: post #5

Given that google shows different people different results for the same query, to tell people what they want to hear, I wonder if others see the same result I do.

I used incognito mode and the top hit was this page, so I guess Y Combinator will be ruling the USA shortly.

Re: Who'll be the next president – Google Search

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Post by kriro » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 9:41 AM UTC

I love that this thread is #1 and "Who will replace Sepp Blatter" is #7 at the time of this post :D

Re: Who'll be the next president – Google Search

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Post by vbezhenar » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 9:41 AM UTC

draugadrotten wrote: post #14

kattuviriyan wrote: post #10

Some will need a screenshot of the query at some point: http://i.imgur.com/SEq4GW9.png

My search result is quite different. http://i.imgur.com/uDN14bw.png

http://rghost.net/6kDYqvpp9/image.png got backlink :)

Re: Who'll be the next president – Google Search

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Post by laumars » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 9:41 AM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #15

draugadrotten wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My search result is quite different. http://i.imgur.com/uDN14bw.png

I think that is why kattuviriyan added the screenshot: I get the same as you, it's probably a country-based feature (or what DuckDuckGo calls bubbling).

I get the Hillary "answer" and I'm not US based.

Interestingly, this HN thread is already the top search result, despite this thread only being an hour old.