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Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates.

The leaked documents touch on topics like what kind of data Google collects and uses, which sites Google elevates for sensitive topics like elections, how Google handles small websites, and more. Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives, according to Fishkin and King.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I want a federated social bookmarking site. Not for news or discussion of recent stuff, but to keep some good sites in your account and to share with others.

Searching those and getting results with attached upvotes/downvotes would be ideal

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Interesting concept. Like if you could upvote/downvoted the SERP and it actually mattered and wasn't easy to manipulate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Was going to say that I was dreaming of such platform, but then it can be used for more than just links, and work as a decentralized Usenet, and what's more important, as a rating system potentially more resilient to abuse (by bots or by people whose votes you don't care about). Then noticed that you wrote "federated".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You can deferate low quality instances and mods of instances can ban bots that upvote spam

Each instance can have its own theme, like an anime instance that just moderates anime content and can't possibly make judgements on whether the physics content is of high quality

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So you want Reddit? We have a federated clone of that. It's Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't want the latest links, in fact there should be no feed, only search and directories