Importantly, it touches not just on the value of the presence of #information from from election campaigns, it reflects on the (negative) value of the absence of information.
"[T]he US government is...trying to break up #Google, the largest #tech#company in the history of the world, and there has been virtually no press about it.
" #Biden's comms team isn't bragging about the administration's accomplishments, because the senior partners in this coalition oppose those accomplishments. They don't want to win an #election based on the promise to prosecute an anti-corporate revolution, because they are counter-revolutionaries."
From eating rocks to putting glue on pizza, Google’s AI Overviews has given us a good laugh and plenty of memes over the past week, thanks to the many hilariously inaccurate answers it has given to several search queries.
However, these clearly wrong answers are not the problem we should be focusing on, argues @FastCompany. “It’s the errors that don’t call attention to their ridiculous selves that could do the most damage to Google Search and everyone who relies on it.” Here’s more.
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation
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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. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#google
Every time I install Windows 11 at work, I feel like I've sold off a little more of my soul.
This operating system is one of the biggest privacy disasters to ever be forced upon the world of personal computing.
Seriously, I know it's intimidating, I know computers are complicated, but you need to ditch Microsoft, and Google. They are not your friends. They are using and exploiting our entire population.
Regarding last boost, you may recall I have warned people to be wary of any accessibility content in posts at Google’s web•dev.
My simplest example is this 1½-year-old report on an egregiously wrong tool-tips post that its author, and site editors, have chosen to simply ignore: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/298296173
Google introduced their Search Generative Experience. The result is an even-more-broken search experience, and in this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the rotten state of Google, and speaks with Lily Ray, a 15-year veteran of the search engine optimization industry, about how Google abandoned the web.
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There has been a lot of talk lately in tech circles and on YouTube about
how to get out of receiving AI-generated suggestions when you do a web
search -- which is now increasingly the default on Google.
While sometimes convenient, AI suggestions have 3 main problems:
a) They are often wrong,
b) They make you scroll way down the page to see the actual websites, &
c) They use all the earth's websites as their database, thereby stealing
everyone's content and rendering visiting the actual content creator
websites mute (unless AI answers wrong).
Here are some ways to turn off the AI in web search:
https://searx.tuxcloud.net/search -- This site is part of a network
of privately hosted sites using the same open-source search software. I
notice that you can not do a site-specific search like in Google or
DuckDuckGo ("site:microsoft.com Outlook questions"). See also https://searx.space/ for a list of other search URLs in the network.
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It's primitive... but it works... mostly...
I got this email today from Google that I can "now managed my saved addresses."
A careful reading is that now Google is going to be sharing my home/work and other addresses across all their services (YouTube, Android, Maps, Gmail... ) and putting them in a central location.
It's hard to say if I already agreed to that of if they are now announcing m location is going to shared more as "feature".
These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/
@futurebird I don't think that you overstress. In social media (the amplifier of the whole thing), one can already recognise tendencies where knowledge loss as a cultural phenomenon is reminiscent of biodiversity loss. Experts still recognise it. But what if the baseline shift is no longer noticeable?
In the near future a mass of people are going to die in a city from the heat, and the headlines will say that "it wouldn't have been so bad except the power went out"
Heat is going to take down power systems. The power systems that could protect us from an event, will be harmed by the event.
618 people in Canada, in the mountains, in the forest, died of a #climate heat event, on the floors of their homes, on their beds. No flames. Just a days heat.
The power stayed on, it would have been worse
Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the #internet sewer" and I really liked that phrase.
@daringfireball FWIW here’s a bookmarklet to convert the currently-viewed Google search to the new clean “Web” view:
javascript:document.location+='&udm=14'
To use in Safari, for example: bookmark any random page temporarily, and then you can edit the address to this instead. If you make this one of your top several Favorites, you can access it quickly just by tapping the URL bar.
(I wrote that whole thing in one sitting. No breaks. Not even a drink of water.) #googlesearch#google#aislop