That seems like defamation too. Some legal consequences on Google's end if you ever pursued it.
Google turned me into a serial killer
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#52Ultimate click bate title.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
this is google we're talking about. so good luck with that.
It's surprisingly easy, just time-involved, to sue large corporations in small claims, at least in some jurisdictions. Yes, they've got lawyers, but if you have a case you may still win. I sued one of the largest telecoms in Canada for not honouring a verbal contract, and won quite easily once I proved the facts in dispute. Businesses assume people won't have the commitment to carry through and actually take them to…
Out of curiosity...how did you prove a verbal contract? Recordings? 3rd person present as witness? Protocol from the verbal contract mailed to yourself?
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#55Could he sue for slander?
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#56This kind of mixup isn't too rare. I remember Googling "sigmoid" used to show a mixture of information about the function and the colon as if they were the same thing. There was also a famous case of something like "7 deadly sins" showing a rainbow flag for the sin of pride. It's creepy because it's presented in such a well designed integrated way yet a completely ridiculous mistake that a human wouldn't make.
Yeah, I've been googling people in the last months (job search, interview prep) and google is really bad with homonyms. Occurrences like in this article is the norm when you're not looking for someone famous. Says a lot that Google rolled it out.
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#57The info boxes sometimes contain surprising errors. I recently searched for Picasa and was informed that it was invented by Pablo Picasso in 2002! Google 'knows' Picasso died in the 1970s and it 'knows' he released a popular software program in 2002. That's an obvious contradiction requiring the simplest of rules to detect, but the system is just a dumb text extractor. (Interestingly, Google assistant gave the correc…
A few days ago, a person in an IRC channel I'm in was convinced AMD GPUs have CUDA cores, because they put "amd 5500rx cuda cores" into Google, saw the infobox entry that said "How many CUDA cores does a Rx 5700 have? 2,560 CUDA cores" and stubbornly refused to accept Google could be wrong.
Amusingly that same infobox then has a table that states "2,560 stream processors" in the "Radeon RX 5700 XT" column. So one half of the ML parsed the web page correctly, presumably into some internal non-ambiguous representation, but then the other half of the ML interpreted it incorrectly anyway. Also, the "5500rx" (search query), "Rx 5700" (infobox title) and "RX 5700 XT" (infobox table header) are three different cards with different numbers of stream processors.
And people wonder why ML gets a bad rep.
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#58What's unfortunate is that Hristo Georgiev is a very common Bulgarian name. This isn't a case where a highly uncommon name can lead to a high degree of certainty in association.
I have a longstanding project where I rank graduate creative writing programs by their alumni's appearances in a selection of prize anthologies. This means I spend a lot of time googling authors. There are a number of authors whose internet presence is shadowed by criminals with the same name. Then there are those who are shadowed by more famous people of the same name such as the Australian poet Kate Middleton or th…
I was so happy to find out 15 years ago that I have the same name as multiple pro athletes, both about the same age as me, too. I very much want to be un-Googleable.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
> mostly white males What is this supposed to imply, exactly?
He's pointing out that Larry page and sergey brin are both Jewish, its a common antisemitic / alt right "dog whistle".
whining about white people is the tactic of modern woke radical leftists, definitely not alt right who would gladly love all the white representation to further their own racist agenda. idk where you got that dumb thought from
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
> mostly white males What is this supposed to imply, exactly?
He's pointing out that Larry page and sergey brin are both Jewish, its a common antisemitic / alt right "dog whistle".
The 'white males are the enemy of the people' is such a leftist trope that it's almost hard for me to believe someone thinks it's an alt right dog whistle.