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Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates.

The leaked documents touch on topics like what kind of data Google collects and uses, which sites Google elevates for sensitive topics like elections, how Google handles small websites, and more. Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives, according to Fishkin and King.

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[-] flappy@lemm.ee 98 points 5 months ago

Can't wait for selfhosted web search to become better.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 62 points 5 months ago

You mean hosting your own crawler/indexer? That doesn't really sound like a thing you could do cost-effectively.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Federated bookmarks?

[-] Paradox@lemdro.id 53 points 5 months ago

Federated directories. We're going back to Yahoo like it's 1995

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 32 points 5 months ago

Webrings!!!

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

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[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

Uh...I know we're all just having fun here, but I need to be part of a webring again. If anyone is more than joking, I kinda need to know about it. Thanks.

[-] yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

there are tons of webring still going these days!

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Seriously? Cool. I'm going to go do some research then. And maybe entirely change the purpose of my blog, just to fit into one...

[-] mil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

can you share a link to it if you're comfortable with that

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

I loved Geocities!

[-] neblem@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Neocities is trying to be a modern reincarnation https://neocities.org/

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 2 points 5 months ago

I mistook that as neopets

[-] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 5 months ago

Yahoo patiently plotting its return from Japan.

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