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Google search turned stupid again
RJSV:
Had one of those 'ah ha' moments, thinking about:
WHY DOESN'T Google do that 'Cookies' notification thing...required notice up front, when you browse some WEB site, like 'A&B Car Sales' ?
Then realized: Google doesn't need Cookies, to track someone, as the search stuff gives them (that)! Ah, nice, they get to do tracking and don't account for it. Nice set up!
Now, today I'm wondering about whether, maybe, Google provides the AUDIO TO TEXT service, for our TV subtitles for hearing impaired. I've noticed, sometime around end of May this year, those TV subtitles (Comcast) have gotten dumbed-down,...sometimes in ways so humorous and lame:
Person saying "Girl in there..." got subtitled as
"GORILLA"
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: RJHayward on July 03, 2022, 02:19:25 pm --- Had one of those 'ah ha' moments, thinking about:
WHY DOESN'T Google do that 'Cookies' notification thing...required notice up front, when you browse some WEB site, like 'A&B Car Sales' ?
Then realized: Google doesn't need Cookies, to track someone, as the search stuff gives them (that)! Ah, nice, they get to do tracking and don't account for it. Nice set up!
Now, today I'm wondering about whether, maybe, Google provides the AUDIO TO TEXT service, for our TV subtitles for hearing impaired. I've noticed, sometime around end of May this year, those TV subtitles (Comcast) have gotten dumbed-down,...sometimes in ways so humorous and lame:
Person saying "Girl in there..." got subtitled as
"GORILLA"
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Human translator replaced with speech-to-text software. What could possibly go wrong? :D
RJSV:
People responding have it, almost correct, but I wanted to take a moment to join, but emphasize the distinction, between taking A SIDE,...that being the abandoning of 'neutral' presentation purely for profitable 'clicks' or simple traffic increase, by way of controversy. That's well known.
The direct point on Google, however, is this extremist/dualist dynamic is played, virtually exclusively on ONE SIDE, (almost in defiance of common sense, if business model calls for 'whichever'.). There's no 'whichever makes for clicks'.
"...Google has clearly picked it's side...",. Yes, thanks I could not have said it simpler.
AND a virtual monopoly.
In Europe: "...tears us apart, in a bad way...".
Again, thank you: Our US monopoly Google is not
"Turned stupid" on us... Just a tired old pretend.
I have CATS that put on a RUSE with less naked stupid.
DonKu:
--- Quote from: Siwastaja on June 28, 2022, 07:55:37 am ---I think I first really noticed it in 2004 and frankly, never seen any improvement after that. Total hit-or-miss every time. More usually miss. Since around 2004, people started to use Google as an address translator so they can type "facebook" instead of facebook.com, and Google encouraged this behavior by purposely dumbing down the algorithm.
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Somewhere around 2004 it seemed my search results for "ski area hours," for instance, inevitably included at least one website named https://skiareahours.com . It was click-bait, of course, "This domain is for sale" click-bait. The writing was on the wall for those who see.
google is your friend for trivia pursuit and popular culture. maillists are your friend for technical information. google returns results faster than the speed of gossip. It typically takes a day or two for a maillist to return the correct answer.
ebastler:
--- Quote from: DonKu on July 04, 2022, 03:00:09 pm ---google is your friend for trivia pursuit and popular culture. maillists are your friend for technical information. google returns results faster than the speed of gossip. It typically takes a day or two for a maillist to return the correct answer.
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I don't follow. When I search for information -- certainly including technical information -- which I expect to be locatable via a lexical search, Google comes through for me most of the time. (And certainly more often than Bing or DuckDuckGo.)
If course, there is technical information which may be difficult to locate by just "searching for terms". I don't expect Google to have a deep understanding of anything (technical or otherwise), and it does not.
So questions along the lines of "Why does my ABC not work as expected" or "What is the best circuit to achieve XYZ" are indeed better asked on a forum or mailing list, where actual human experts can hopefully answer them. But I don't blame that on deficiencies or doctoring of Google's search algorithm.
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