Wouldn't this require him to know how he is going to be quoted in advance?
Should everyone be so readily accepting that this is some genius level of foresight?
Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
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Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#72I'm shocked that this works on a technical level, simply because a lot of words we use are ambiguous, so Google's algorithms are impressively good at picking up what we're really searching for. I'm constantly amazed to see the correct search results, and almost never have to add clarifying terms, even when I have to admit that I am being quite ambiguous. So I never would have expected this to be possible, let alone e…
I don’t think it really does work? When I search, the hidden story appears again.
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#73> I wonder why nobody else is willing to do this? Because it makes you look like a fool. Doesn’t mean it won’t work though. Bojo apparently targetting the segment for whom this kind thing goes over their heads
It would be funny to play him at his own game. Get say “Boris Johnson Feline” into Google Trends and then watch how he mangles it into his speech.
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#74Not the first time he has been accused of this https://twitter.com/beffernieblack/status/114380892107484364...
I think the case is stronger now. This happening once might just be co-incidence. Twice, not so much.
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#75Hmm, you sure about this? I just googled "boris johnson model" and got nothing but results about affairs and Jennifer Arcuri.
Nobody can be sure about this except google itself, because google gives different results for each user or location. I get all the affairs as well, but I don't matter to BJ as I'm not a UK citizen and won't vote.
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#76The most worrying for me? Even after countless updates to their algorithms, breakthrough AI and ML, breaking hundred of thousands of legit website each time, Google is still dumb enough to be tricked by such a simplistic tactics :-( Or is Google biased toward "official" speech (even from a really-not-trustable source) like Twitter is when it will allow BS from a President (because it's an official account so not subj…
> breaking hundred of thousands of legit website each time, Google is still dumb enough to be tricked by such a simplistic tactics
Google wasn't tricked, it's intentional. Their business model is generating money from clicks. It's not showing you best results for what you search for. It's showing latest news, tragedy, and what people talk about. 10h old news? OLD, BORING. New shiny 2h young news? YEA, more clicks, clicks and more click, more ads, more clicks, more revenue. The sponsored content online must be constantly changing and adapting to new information to generate more profits and more clicks and keep people clicking and visiting and searching. Don't forget that it's not only sponsored content, but also targeted content with user tracking, because clicks count, on one day they will show you news to annoy you to generate more searches and clicks, on another day they will show you majority of stuff to calm you down. Keep clicking.
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#77The most worrying for me? Even after countless updates to their algorithms, breakthrough AI and ML, breaking hundred of thousands of legit website each time, Google is still dumb enough to be tricked by such a simplistic tactics :-( Or is Google biased toward "official" speech (even from a really-not-trustable source) like Twitter is when it will allow BS from a President (because it's an official account so not subj…
This comes from Google News, which has been a very poor product for a long time. It groups together unrelated articles but still has repetitions, chooses articles with completely uninformative titles, choose articles about a video without the video or a link to it, often shows derivative articles missing important context.
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#78I can foresee the next step of this, as politicians try and seed the SOE terms for their opposition with their speeches. We could be due an era of complete gibberish from politicians instead of just lies (note: i direct "lies" to all politicians not to JUST Boris )
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#79They talked about this on John Olliver. They had a bizarre interview where he brought up a story about a bus and people think it is to salt the keywords of Google search to not show a campaign bus that highlighted something like free health care or something like that. Edit: user "sincerely" has a better description and links
Re: Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
#80My pals cracked this one back in June! https://parall.ax/blog/view/3301/boris-johnson-the-unlikely-...