{"id":3381,"date":"2018-08-28T10:15:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2018-08-29T10:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T15:39:48","slug":"3381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=3381","title":{"rendered":"Search engines as bias algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bmmjg\" data-offset-key=\"12hu-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"12hu-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"12hu-0-0\">Sigh! Once again, Trump is the most lamentable victim of any persecution in history (including actual people who were bloody well burned alive as witches). Anyone remember people google-bombing Bush2 to link moron and &#8220;miserable failure&#8221; over to him? Algorithms can be used against themselves. <\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"12hu-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"12hu-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?attachment_id=3382\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3382\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/TrumpGoogleConspiracy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/TrumpGoogleConspiracy.png 700w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/TrumpGoogleConspiracy-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bmmjg\" data-offset-key=\"fj59s-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fj59s-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fj59s-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bmmjg\" data-offset-key=\"2mu39-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2mu39-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2mu39-0-0\">Singling out a specific feedback cycle that is damaging *to you* is a whole heap of hypocrisy (and thus neo-presidential). But Google&#8217;s &#8220;personalized&#8221; news seems to be just as much a victim of commercialization as cable news. I don&#8217;t get many articles that are complimentary of Trump. My husband does. Seeing information that substantiates your point of view is not a good thing for personal growth and awareness, but this is not a conspiracy. Just Google&#8217;s profile of us &#8212; we&#8217;re getting news that Google thinks we&#8217;ll like. I know search results are personalized in an attempt to deliver what *you* want &#8230; so it&#8217;s quite possible my search results will skew toward Trump-negative content (although as a matter of business, I would expect my husband&#8217;s to skew toward Trump-positive content). I guess we all know what Trump clicks on and what he doesn&#8217;t if *his* results aren&#8217;t just a summary of the Fox News homepage. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"2mu39-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"2mu39-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4o8fp-0-0\">And thinking about search engines logically &#8212; the &#8220;secret sauce&#8221; is a bias algorithm. Back in 1994, there was an &#8220;Internet Directory&#8221; &#8212; a alphabetized listing (maybe categorized by subject &#8230; don&#8217;t recall) of web sites. It missed some. More importantly, though, there were not millions of web sites with new ones popping up every day, so I&#8217;m thinking the phone book approach to web sites might not work. If search engines crawled the Internet and returned a newest to oldest list of everything that contains the word &#8230; or a list alphabetized by author, page title, etc, &#8230; <em>would you use a search engine<\/em>??? Someone would have to write a bias search algorithm to work against search engine results. Oh, wait. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh! Once again, Trump is the most lamentable victim of any persecution in history (including actual people who were bloody well burned alive as witches). Anyone remember people google-bombing Bush2 to link moron and &#8220;miserable failure&#8221; over to him? Algorithms can be used against themselves. \u00a0 Singling out a specific feedback cycle that is damaging &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,29],"tags":[336,651,653,652],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-technology","tag-algorithms","tag-commercialization-of-news","tag-echo-chamber","tag-feedback-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}