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Google turned me into a serial killer

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Re: Google turned me into a serial killer

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Post by ishiz »

romseb wrote: post #45

Suggestion: Create a new Wikipedia article with the same Name, upload your own profile photo onto it and put a Disambiguation (Programmer/Hacker) in it so that Google will associate it correctly. Alternatively, add a drawing of the rapist to the original Wikipedia article. Interestingly, for me, another Hristo (german principal investigator) appears on the right side when I google the name.

> Suggestion: Create a new Wikipedia article with the same Name, upload your own profile photo onto it and put a Disambiguation (Programmer/Hacker) in it so that Google will associate it correctly.

That Wikipedia article would probably meet the criteria for Speedy Deletion and just causes unnecessary effort for the Wikipedia editors.

Re: Google turned me into a serial killer

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Post by pizza234 »

H8crilA wrote: post #46
paulpauper wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is not a typical large corp though. They will spend millions on top lawyers for even small cases even if settling costs far less, just to make a point that they do not lose. If a company shows a willingness to settle or they they lose easily, then that makes them vulnerable to future litigation. Contingency lawyers will not take on companies that do not lose or settle.

And you know this because?

I don't agree with the parent's way to put it, however, there is at least some truth.

There as been an interesting case - Aaron Greenspan vs Google: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-google-bothered-to-ap_b_2.... It's a very interesting and even entertaining read.

Re: Google turned me into a serial killer

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Post by minsc__and__boo »

haswell wrote: post #36
3pt14159 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems that they do, but they don't. Plenty of information flows through emails, chat, social media, direct search on websites like Amazon. The internet is large, and Google is a very big player, but they're not controlling all the information flow on the internet, and if they really tried people would leave.

That Google controls/censors information is well established [0]. The side effects of their search algorithms and how they control the flow of information has also been a topic of regular discussion/scrutiny for many years (just one example here [1]) > and if they really tried people would leave Where would they go? - [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google - [1] https://mindmatters.ai/2019/07/google-e…

I know you're trying to make a point about censorship existing, but I'm not sure if loli porn and scam online pharmacies were really contributing to the internet.

Re: Google turned me into a serial killer

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Post by xxs »

romseb wrote: post #45

Suggestion: Create a new Wikipedia article with the same Name, upload your own profile photo onto it and put a Disambiguation (Programmer/Hacker) in it so that Google will associate it correctly. Alternatively, add a drawing of the rapist to the original Wikipedia article. Interestingly, for me, another Hristo (german principal investigator) appears on the right side when I google the name.

No way he'd be able to add an article about himself. He'd need to be somewhat famous/notable for the article to stick...

Re: Google turned me into a serial killer

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Post by ghaff »

paulpauper wrote: post #47
cryptica wrote: post #23

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It's disturbing how often people infer that Google is impervious to the law.

That would req. showing that law was broken. I don't think in this case it was. More like a mistake.

If Google refused to fix it, it might be different. But I expect that, if someone were to file a suit, not even trying to get it fixed wouldn't be seen as acting in good faith.

Re: Google turned me into a serial killer

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Post by systemvoltage »

sidlls wrote: post #27
nusaru wrote: post #18

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> mostly white males What is this supposed to imply, exactly?

An extreme reading: white men of the past and (some) of the present were/are racist, therefore we all are. It should go without saying that (probably) isn't a charitable reading.

It boggles my mind how we went from a google search result to white supremacy.

I'd like people to please exercise restraint, the world feels like it is falling apart where every conversation becomes political/racial. If this is going on HN, I wonder how it is elsewhere.

Re: Google turned me into a serial killer

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Post by fungiblecog »

Tenoke wrote: post #60
brinfan wrote: post #44

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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.

It's the old correlation/causation problem. Being white is at the present time in history correlated wih privilege. But being white isn't the problem. The problem is how the privileged use it to lock out everyone else from the benefits they enjoy. Race and such like are irrelevant distractions.

Re: Google turned me into a serial killer

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Post by yongjik »

bartread wrote: post #67
walrus01 wrote: post #65

If you want to see a terrible example of Google automatically finding a "best" search result for the #1 entry of something, google the following: "how many raccoons can fit"

For anyone who's curious but not enough to actually run the search themselves, the top results (using the string without quotes) all relate to how many raccoons can fit into a human anus. No, I am not joking, and this is the result of 20+ years of web search development and decades of cutting edge AI research, right here. Honestly, it pisses me off how bad Google's search is these days. It has close to zero clue abou…

Well, apparently it's a meme. Yes it's objectively terrible, but I'll bet 80% of people searching for "how many raccoons can fit" are actually looking for those results. (I mean, unless you're buying a container to transport your twenty pet raccoons, it's just not the kind of phrase most people would spontaneously search for.)

Basically, it's as relevant as searching for "the answer to life" and getting results spammed with 42.

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