Bing has also turned him into a serial killer. Its the unique name and a Wikipedia entry. https://www.bing.com/search?q=hristo+georgiev
bing is not showing his picture though
Google turned me into a serial killer
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is Sundar Pichai a white male?
I think he is so rich now he can basically be considered white for purposes of discussing his privilege.
What a take! "Success and non-whiteness are incompatible."
For the purpose of discussing the lack of privilege of homeless people, should we consider them black?
It's almost as if race is just a confusing distraction in conversations about privilege!
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#83Such nice smile on a corporate picture, that's hilarious
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#84Suggestion: 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.
It's against Wikipedia's rules to create articles about yourself.
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#85When solving problems at scale with a 0.0000001% error rate ends up destroying someone’s life.
The error rate is way, way higher than that. But yes, still low, and that's what almost certainly happened here.
I was just throwing a number. I don’t work at Google, but I have heard from friends who work at that scale that when bugs only affect a few thousand people, it is “safe” to ship.
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#86Re: Google turned me into a serial killer
#87> Maybe letting a single internet company "organize the world's information" probably isn't such a great idea. Some food for thought. When put like this, the thought that one company controls virtually all information flow on the Internet is more than mildly terrifying.
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.
Well yeah, but you now have listed basicly 3 companies with most of them having a majority market share in their domain. (Gmail, FB, FB, Amazon; respectively) Plus google search is the end-all-be-all answer. People treat these results as the truth.
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#88I don't see what the big deal here. The serial killer really did exist, and has the same name as the author of the blog post. Searching for "Hristo Georgiev" using Bing and DuckDuckGo turns up the article about the serial killer as the first link. Why is this not "DuckDuckGo turned me into a serial killer", other than people hating on Google?
Suppose his name was "Thomas Edison"; would the title of the article then read, "How Google turned me into the inventor of the light bulb"?
Or suppose someone shared the name, with say, Slobodan Milosevic; is it Google's fault that a web search of that person's name turns up articles about someone who was charged with genocide and other war crimes?
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I had a recording of the call.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, the fact that the serial killer in question has been dead for forty years makes this conclusively "a funny story" and not "a red flag". But it also probably is mandatory to cover this ice breaker before the person you swiped on Googles you. "Just FYI, funny story, Google thinks I'm a serial killer. But that guy's been dead for years, and Google is mixed up."
I've seen how bad people are at skimming things they read online though even when the facts are laying there in front of them, and I could easily see someone (hiring manager, dating app they matched with) just googling their name, seeing the same pic match, and instantly running for the hills.
And, especially if it were something less extreme than serial killer and dates/location seemed plausible at first glance (or not--as you say skimming), a lot of people doing some quick resume triage will see the fraud conviction and move on.