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4 Sep 2024 01:21:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: It's Google again  
From: nemesis
Date: 14 Sep 2010 13:54:54
Message: <4c8fb6ee@news.povray.org>
gregjohn escreveu:
> I asked for "Paull" but Google tells me about "Paul."
> 
> What I fear in all of this is Google becoming a search engine that tells you not
> "what you asked for" but "what most reasonable people are looking for"

AFAIK, it's been always like that.  It's how their algorithm PageRank 
works:  basically, by clicking on (supposedly) more relevant links, 
people themselves do promote pages up in their indexes.

>, which is
> a stone's throw from "what my sponsors think you ought to see,"  not unlike many
> of it's pre-dotcom-bust competitors.

the difference is that sponsor links are clearly delineated as such and 
they are not as intrusive as in, say, Yahoo!.

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