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[quote]Edevus wrote:
Very nice video indeed.
Tailoring the searches and information to the user only leads to even more bias and ignorance. It’s like people just reading one newspaper and believing, 100%, what it says, without comparing to other sources, points of view, etc.
I read different newspapers with different political views and sometimes I read some news about something “important” that happened and I already know it may not appear in the other newspapers. I’m often right about this. You wouldn’t want to upset 90% of your readers would you? [/quote]
Lol, it’s a search engine, they want to send you to the most relevant information for the search terms. It is called SEO, don’t make it into anything more than what it is, bro.
I seem to constantly get friend recommendations with people who I’ve never met but who have one friend in common with me. I don’t think I’ve had one with no-one in common in a while. On the other hand, I rarely update my “likes” so that might be why.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Edevus wrote:
Very nice video indeed.
Tailoring the searches and information to the user only leads to even more bias and ignorance. It’s like people just reading one newspaper and believing, 100%, what it says, without comparing to other sources, points of view, etc.
I read different newspapers with different political views and sometimes I read some news about something “important” that happened and I already know it may not appear in the other newspapers. I’m often right about this. You wouldn’t want to upset 90% of your readers would you? [/quote]
Lol, it’s a search engine, they want to send you to the most relevant information for the search terms. It is called SEO, don’t make it into anything more than what it is, bro. [/quote]
My google searches and your google searches for the same “search terms” would be different.
That was the point, of the video anyways.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Edevus wrote:
Very nice video indeed.
Tailoring the searches and information to the user only leads to even more bias and ignorance. It’s like people just reading one newspaper and believing, 100%, what it says, without comparing to other sources, points of view, etc.
I read different newspapers with different political views and sometimes I read some news about something “important” that happened and I already know it may not appear in the other newspapers. I’m often right about this. You wouldn’t want to upset 90% of your readers would you? [/quote]
Lol, it’s a search engine, they want to send you to the most relevant information for the search terms. It is called SEO, don’t make it into anything more than what it is, bro. [/quote]
Watch the video. Your google searches are different than mine. Starting because we’re using different ones, yours is .com, mine is .ee.
Facebook? Yesterday I discovered I could remove adds and it asked me why I removed it. After I gave a reason (can’t remember) it said that it would try to adjust the adds to fit my criteria and all that.
That’s the issue. Search engines being too personal, too customized, feeding us with just what we want to see. Or that’s what the system assumes.
I’m tired of the “Keep your account safe” splash page every time I log in to FB on a PC, where the first thing it asks is my phone number.
I’m not giving FB my phone number. Ever.
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
lol, someone could’ve told me I’m being discussed… easiest way to get an answer.
Didn’t do a search as I don’t know your real name, you did come up as a “people you may know” however and I had no idea it was LM.
If your not happy about it, deny it, I’m not offended. Its the internet after all.
Agree about facebook accessing history though.[/quote]
No not offended or unhappy about it. I was just surprised that facebook was capable of doing it legally. I’d say it boarders an invasion of privacy since we do not grant facebook access (as far as I know) insight into our browsing history.
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
lol, someone could’ve told me I’m being discussed… easiest way to get an answer.
Didn’t do a search as I don’t know your real name, you did come up as a “people you may know” however and I had no idea it was LM.
If your not happy about it, deny it, I’m not offended. Its the internet after all.
Agree about facebook accessing history though.[/quote]
No not offended or unhappy about it. I was just surprised that facebook was capable of doing it legally. I’d say it boarders an invasion of privacy since we do not grant facebook access (as far as I know) insight into our browsing history.[/quote]
Check the Privacy Policy. 
[quote]Edevus wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Edevus wrote:
Very nice video indeed.
Tailoring the searches and information to the user only leads to even more bias and ignorance. It’s like people just reading one newspaper and believing, 100%, what it says, without comparing to other sources, points of view, etc.
I read different newspapers with different political views and sometimes I read some news about something “important” that happened and I already know it may not appear in the other newspapers. I’m often right about this. You wouldn’t want to upset 90% of your readers would you? [/quote]
Lol, it’s a search engine, they want to send you to the most relevant information for the search terms. It is called SEO, don’t make it into anything more than what it is, bro. [/quote]
Watch the video. Your google searches are different than mine. Starting because we’re using different ones, yours is .com, mine is .ee.
Facebook? Yesterday I discovered I could remove adds and it asked me why I removed it. After I gave a reason (can’t remember) it said that it would try to adjust the adds to fit my criteria and all that.
That’s the issue. Search engines being too personal, too customized, feeding us with just what we want to see. Or that’s what the system assumes.[/quote]
Wasn’t talking about the video, the video doesn’t sound like it’s the beginning of a conspiracy theory.
I do SEO for a living, and I know how Google works. They don’t ‘feed’ us, we search a term and it is tailored for us, this is like getting upset at a secretary because she ‘knows’ us and she ‘feeds’ us with things that are tailored to what we want…that’s why we pay her. I don’t want to search for something and get something I don’t want.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Edevus wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Edevus wrote:
Very nice video indeed.
Tailoring the searches and information to the user only leads to even more bias and ignorance. It’s like people just reading one newspaper and believing, 100%, what it says, without comparing to other sources, points of view, etc.
I read different newspapers with different political views and sometimes I read some news about something “important” that happened and I already know it may not appear in the other newspapers. I’m often right about this. You wouldn’t want to upset 90% of your readers would you? [/quote]
Lol, it’s a search engine, they want to send you to the most relevant information for the search terms. It is called SEO, don’t make it into anything more than what it is, bro. [/quote]
Watch the video. Your google searches are different than mine. Starting because we’re using different ones, yours is .com, mine is .ee.
Facebook? Yesterday I discovered I could remove adds and it asked me why I removed it. After I gave a reason (can’t remember) it said that it would try to adjust the adds to fit my criteria and all that.
That’s the issue. Search engines being too personal, too customized, feeding us with just what we want to see. Or that’s what the system assumes.[/quote]
Wasn’t talking about the video, the video doesn’t sound like it’s the beginning of a conspiracy theory.
I do SEO for a living, and I know how Google works. They don’t ‘feed’ us, we search a term and it is tailored for us, this is like getting upset at a secretary because she ‘knows’ us and she ‘feeds’ us with things that are tailored to what we want…that’s why we pay her. I don’t want to search for something and get something I don’t want.[/quote]
Not a conspiracy but… Remember that book you told me about? Well even when I googled the title it didn’t show up in my google search, probably because it was about religion. You had to put up a link about it for me to find it.
Just saying.
[quote]TommyGunz32 wrote:
maybe he did a search for you on facebook or something. [/quote]
Me, a proud, PROUD Arkansas Razorback, try to fb search an Ole Miss Rebel?
FUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKK YYYOOOOUUUUU.
GO HOGS GO.
But yeah, its gettin kinda creepy. LM and lil power were both “suggested” to me
I’m really hoping it suggests prof x and in his picture he’s wearing a dentist jacket and a big monocle while waving a drill around in his profile picture.
facebook and privacy issues freak me out.
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Edevus wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Edevus wrote:
Very nice video indeed.
Tailoring the searches and information to the user only leads to even more bias and ignorance. It’s like people just reading one newspaper and believing, 100%, what it says, without comparing to other sources, points of view, etc.
I read different newspapers with different political views and sometimes I read some news about something “important” that happened and I already know it may not appear in the other newspapers. I’m often right about this. You wouldn’t want to upset 90% of your readers would you? [/quote]
Lol, it’s a search engine, they want to send you to the most relevant information for the search terms. It is called SEO, don’t make it into anything more than what it is, bro. [/quote]
Watch the video. Your google searches are different than mine. Starting because we’re using different ones, yours is .com, mine is .ee.
Facebook? Yesterday I discovered I could remove adds and it asked me why I removed it. After I gave a reason (can’t remember) it said that it would try to adjust the adds to fit my criteria and all that.
That’s the issue. Search engines being too personal, too customized, feeding us with just what we want to see. Or that’s what the system assumes.[/quote]
Wasn’t talking about the video, the video doesn’t sound like it’s the beginning of a conspiracy theory.
I do SEO for a living, and I know how Google works. They don’t ‘feed’ us, we search a term and it is tailored for us, this is like getting upset at a secretary because she ‘knows’ us and she ‘feeds’ us with things that are tailored to what we want…that’s why we pay her. I don’t want to search for something and get something I don’t want.[/quote]
Not a conspiracy but… Remember that book you told me about? Well even when I googled the title it didn’t show up in my google search, probably because it was about religion. You had to put up a link about it for me to find it.
Just saying.[/quote]
There are pros and cons to a search engine that customizes your searches. It works if you’re doing a lot of reading around on a subject you know about, but I tried to find an old-ish book the other day (published in the '90s; knew the full title) and I came up empty-handed. I couldn’t even find places where it used to be sold - and I’ve managed that when I’ve searched for books from the same publisher.
If Google wasn’t tailored to my previous searches, wouldn’t I have had a better chance of finding the book? If they are going to tailor it to our needs, surely we should have some say in it?
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
I’m really hoping it suggests prof x and in his picture he’s wearing a dentist jacket and a big monocle while waving a drill around in his profile picture.[/quote]
dear lord that would be spectacular
None of you homo’s come up on my facebook…
amidoinitwrong?
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
None of you homo’s come up on my facebook…
amidoinitwrong?[/quote]
Yea really, me neither. I’m glad that my apparent ridiculous safety precautions have worked fairly well.
Let me say this first, I know nothing about computers and such. But how hard would it be to trick the algorithms by using some type of script (no idea if thats the right thing you’d use) to search millions of words, images, videos, news, etc… on google so that there is no way they can tailor your interests.
Do the same for you’re facebook searches. Also make fake accounts in multiple areas of the world and add as many diverse Likes and friends to those pages and addd them as your friends on your real account.
I don’t think I’d go through all this trouble but I’m curious if it would work???
Facebook ‘privacy’ is a joke. There is no such thing on there.
For me, I do nothing more than upload the occasional photo and keep in touch with friends. No personal details, no photo albums and when I get tagged in a photo I remove it (and I’ve now disabled tagging of me by others).
They can only take as much as you give them, besides the usual tracking of data.
For those that don’t know, you have a little something called Google Analytics (among many other services). These can track and use lots and lots of data by running as scripts on webpages. I use them for websites, and so do millions of other webmasters (so does this site).
I can tell you, when a user visits a site, how they got there, what browser they use, their operating system, location, duration on the site and what files and pages they accessed depending on the settings they have. That’s pretty much the tip of the iceberg.
It’s mostly not used maliciously, but to improve user experiences when browsing a site - as well as collecting certain information for marketing and optimization purposes.
Holymac unfriended me on facebook.