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First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfie (www.404media.co)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?

You're right. This is the real problem with search engines like Google and one reason I use SearXNG instances and Mojeek instead. Where I live, the algorithm is more likely to net content that is biased toward right-wing conspiracy theories and problematic agencies because of that algorithm. Any search engine that does this is not a valid search engine, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes I had a family member in a right wing conspiracy area. It was infuriating because his friends would tell him their nonsense and he would be skeptical and google it, only for google to seemingly support what they were saying.

I couldn't replicate his results at all and it would take a lot of searching to even find what he was talking about so I could debunk it for him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I suppose it's invalid in the context of showing you what you exactly searched for. But it's pretty valid in the context of showing you what you're looking for. For example, someone with a disdain for science when searching for the terms "big bang" or "evolution" is probably not looking for scientific articles detailing the rigor of the prevalent theories. If the point of a search engine is to find what you're looking for, it's pretty effective by that measure. It just so happens that what you're looking is biased in its own ways.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Similarly, but from a good view, if a programmer searches "how to kill child" they probably don't want a tutorial of how to kill human children.