Google admits to using a WHITELIST - GoFuckYourself.com

$5 submissions · 03-16-2011, 09:29 PM

Google's Matt Cutts got called out during a Spam Police panel. Here's the funkilicious details:

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Our goal is to provide people with the most relevant answers as quickly as possible, and we do that primarily with computer algorithms. In our experience, algorithms generate much better results than humans ranking websites page by page. And given the hundreds of millions of queries we get every day, it wouldn't be feasible to handle them manually anyway. That said, we do sometimes take manual action to deal with problems like malware and copyright infringement. Like other search engines (including Microsoft's Bing), we also use exception lists when specific algorithms inadvertently impact websites, and when we believe an exception list will significantly improve search quality. We don't keep a master list protecting certain sites from all changes to our algorithms.

The most common manual exceptions we make are for sites that get caught by SafeSearch-a tool that gives people a way to filter adult content from their results. For example, "essex.edu" was incorrectly flagged by our SafeSearch algorithms because it contains the word "sex." On the rare occasions we make manual exceptions, we go to great lengths to apply our quality standards and guidelines fairly to all websites.

Of course, we would much prefer not to make any manual changes and not to maintain any exception lists. But search is still in its infancy, and our algorithms can't answer all questions.

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fatfoo · 03-16-2011, 09:33 PM

"search is still in its infancy" - Google's embryon project needs to grow up. The ideas need to evolve to become better.

papill0n · 03-16-2011, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by fatfoo

"search is still in its infancy" - Google's embryon project needs to grow up. The ideas need to evolve to become better.

you are the master of stating the fucking obvious

Barry-xlovecam · 03-16-2011, 10:36 PM

Hopefully, the Senate Subcommittee hearings will be interesting.

If nothing else ? a time to grandstand and gather votes ...

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jigg · 03-16-2011, 11:16 PM

um wait ... didn't he deny manual edits back when people were saying google had staff in India that filtered results by hand? And also said no lists exist that everything is done with algo?

$5 submissions · 03-17-2011, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by jigg

um wait ... didn't he deny manual edits back when people were saying google had staff in India that filtered results by hand? And also said no lists exist that everything is done with algo?

Interesting observation

Agent 488 · 03-17-2011, 02:26 PM

what whitelist means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist

manually altering some results is not it.

redwhiteandblue · 03-17-2011, 02:50 PM

Wait...if their algorithm can't even tell the difference between "essex" and "sex", how fucking good is it?

seeandsee · 03-17-2011, 04:28 PM

they make some people rich and some poor

$5 submissions · 03-17-2011, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by seeandsee

they make some people rich and some poor

Next thing you'll tell me water is wet.

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Agent 488 Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 22,511	what whitelist means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist manually altering some results is not it.