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Re: Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight

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Post by piyush_soni »

throwaway47861 wrote: post #175
piyush_soni wrote: post #121

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> Hence I am using a throwaway account .. You mean the account you use to criticize and judge almost everyone on the planet [0] [1] [2] [3]? Now that's very intelligent, adult, and open-minded isn't it? :) [0] : "I've noticed that C and C++ have pretty fanatical and very narrow-minded fanbase" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14877927 [1] : "Because they have no lives and posting emotional responses on the inte…

Yes. I am using a throwaway exactly because of this close scrutiny like yours. Examples: I've known racists who are amazing engineers. The fact that they were awful racists didn't demean their engineering ability. That's why for some of my posts I prefer being anonymous. People like you would probably try and demean me because they disagree with me on something. I am flawed like everybody else and I'll be the first t…

I was not trying to demean you, but the hypocrisy needed to be pointed out. It's new to me that someone maintains another account for his wildly generalized critical posts and then uses that to preach the exact opposite to others.

Re: Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight

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Post by throwaway47861 »

piyush_soni wrote: post #221
throwaway47861 wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. I am using a throwaway exactly because of this close scrutiny like yours. Examples: I've known racists who are amazing engineers. The fact that they were awful racists didn't demean their engineering ability. That's why for some of my posts I prefer being anonymous. People like you would probably try and demean me because they disagree with me on something. I am flawed like everybody else and I'll be the first t…

I was not trying to demean you, but the hypocrisy needed to be pointed out. It's new to me that someone maintains another account for his wildly generalized critical posts and then uses that to preach the exact opposite to others.

One can easily get fed up and thus resort to a throwaway account. Hypocrisy is one way of looking at it. I'll not argue as to how you should be looking at it through my point of view.

If anything, I have numerous anecdotal evidence for my generalizations. But we all do, so that's not really a defensible position, I realize that. :)

My original objection is that many people in the thread, right here in HN, the place that should be where the modern intellectual elite hangs out, are no better than your random Google zealot who never misses the chance to piss on people for using Apple devices.

All of us should do better. I appreciate your criticism of my generalizations. While I think they are well-justified in the background of my life's experience, I am still not blind to the fact that they are prejudices as well.

Re: Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight

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Post by sidcool »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #193
majani wrote: post #179

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I believe that when it comes to search, the aim should not be about competing with Google in it's current form. That is impossible. The aim should be to change the architecture of search such that it becomes a commodity that anyone can plug into. Like what open source CMSes did to the AOL/Time Warner giant. Then the owners of this commoditized search can charge for their premium API on a usage basis, transforming sea…

I think that is an excellent vision but to understand the challenge of achieving it consider how a search engine has to operate. Typically it 'shards' the index of all available documents into chunks, where the necessary descriptive bits for a chunk can fit in the memory of a dense memory server. Then each server returns its "best" result which are collected, and from there the top 10 are selected. Search needs to be…

Good write up. Thanks
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