The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway

Post by GekkePrutser » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 9:48 AM UTC

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kkoncevicius wrote: post #155

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Google seems to also place less emphasis on search phrases. When searching for exact article names I easily find them on DuckDuckGo, but not on Google. Two recent search-term examples: 1. the scientific worldview needs an update 2. from reproducibility to over reproducibility

In general, google no longer primarily searches what you asked them but for what they think you want. This might be better for the average user but can be extremely frustrating when you are trying to find something more niche.

Post by nextlevelwizard » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 9:51 AM UTC

stavros wrote: post #203

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> They host everyone equally. Everyone except those that are too right wing.

Are you referring to the one incident where they stopped hosting a racist hate site and then vowed to never take sides again?

Post by stavros » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 9:53 AM UTC

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #213

stavros wrote: post #203

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Are you referring to the one incident where they stopped hosting a racist hate site and then vowed to never take sides again?

"He has never murdered anyone" "Are you referring to the one incident where he shot a racist hater and then vowed to never murder again?" All I'm saying is that we won't know until they come under pressure again

Post by pepy » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 10:04 AM UTC

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pepy wrote: post #198

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Do you want to get to the bottom of this? A friend of mine is a top Dutch lawyer with an interest in these things.

This was two years ago and the network is now (to my knowledge) gone.

Post by ohthehugemanate » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 10:06 AM UTC

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Atleast you get the results you are looking for... I search for three keywords, and it chooses to ignore the two specific one, and show only the one general one (while puting a line under the search result, that the result does not contain some keywords). Basically, like searching diving suit thickness, and google ignoring "suit" and "thickness" (until i specifically put those two words in quotemarks), and only showi…

I play a game with google search: I take something very mainstream like a movie title, let's say 'Reservoir Dogs' And change something in it, to say 'Reservoir Cats' for example. Google search 'reservoir cats' and it will completely ignore what you actually search for in favor of the mainstream result. The effect is basically that you can't sesrch for 'reservoir cats'! Even putting something opposite or unrelated to…