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Seems like a lot of it came from them inadvertently posting some internal API to GitHub: https://github.com/googleapis/elixir-google-api/commit/078b4...
I guess too many people got laid off to do the whole "three reviewers per PR" thing!
> My anonymous source claimed that way back in 2005, Google wanted the full clickstream of billions of Internet users, and with Chrome, they’ve now got it. The API documents suggest Google calculates several types of metrics that can be called using Chrome views related to both individual pages and entire domains. What answer do the engineers at google working on this have for this violation of privacy?
I am not an engineer at Google but this is I would say if I was. We don't know who you are, you are just a number in a database, and we don't even know what number, we just get the total number of visits for each website, not who visited it. It is like counting cars on a highway, not following your car. Plus, it serves the useful purpose of providing you with better search results, the terms and conditions allow it,…
This is not what a clickstream is. A clickstream requires that the sequence of clicks be preserved, and preserving that sequence undermines anonymity.
Seriously considering switching back to Firefox after all these years.
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I am not an engineer at Google but this is I would say if I was. We don't know who you are, you are just a number in a database, and we don't even know what number, we just get the total number of visits for each website, not who visited it. It is like counting cars on a highway, not following your car. Plus, it serves the useful purpose of providing you with better search results, the terms and conditions allow it,…
> we don't even know what number, we just get the total number of visits for each website, not who visited it This is not what a clickstream is. A clickstream requires that the sequence of clicks be preserved, and preserving that sequence undermines anonymity.
Google researchers spend time ensuring k-anonymity (for reasonably large k) when using data.
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SEO is vandalism and I one day hope the majority of Internet users see that
Perhaps, though a world without SEO doesn't necessarily surface the best content either. Not everything about Google's algorithm that's subpar is because of spam or SEO.
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> I won't use it. I am pushing back on your belief that it has figured something out about anything, because to me it looks like Kagi takes Google's results and then makes them worse. Kagi is pretty clear about how they do what they do: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm... . You're half right, except that Google is not a vertical that they leverage for their index. Their solution works for…
Lol, it's just complete bullshit marketing on that page. But I do find it fascinating how they obfuscate what is actually happening behind the scenes and cannot come out and clearly say how their technology works, or that they are using google's index. >Kagi is known for delivering a unique flavor of high-quality search results, sourced from our own web index (internally named "Teclis") and news index (internally nam…
Here on the ground in Norway I just say "lucky you" if Google serves the same results as Kagi.
My experience is Google expands my search terms beyond recognition and I am absolutely and utterly fed up with starting to read an article about a problem I searched for, getting a result from a trustworthy site, starting to read only to realize Google secretly behind my back expanded my search from "unpopular-ancient-javascript-framework-from-2021" to "currently-popular-js-framework-with-kinda-similar-name".
My time is valuable. Not having to babysit my search engine is something I happily pay for.
Could probably get my employer to pay for it too.
If Google by some miracle has you in an experimental group where they don't mess with your queries, or if you have time to babysit it - more power to you.
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Perhaps, though a world without SEO doesn't necessarily surface the best content either. Not everything about Google's algorithm that's subpar is because of spam or SEO.
There's no world with SEO that is a positive, don't delude yourself
If anyone is surprised about chrome sending urls to Google, you can turn the “feature” off by unchecking “Make searches and browsing better” in the sync section of Google chrome settings. Creepy.
Is that part of Chrome not open-source?
[1] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/tre...