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The actual reason for this is that Google is extremely (unreasonably?) paranoid about leaking how we do things to our competitors.

That's exactly what I said. They used to do this. Now they don't.

I found this link which looks like it dumps search history as an rss feed. That might be a convenient way to send it over. https://www.google.com/history/?lookup?q=&output=rss&... …

In general we want to measuring what matters to users, so removing a lot of spam that nobody sees doesn't really make anything better. By the same token, if you are trying to launch a new spam classif…

Being in the index isn't very meaningful. Very little of our spam-fighting/ranking prevents sites from showing up for "site:" queries, because in general we think that if someone is intending on going…

I got errors when I had spaces in my credit card number. Removing the spaces let me purchase. (true story.)

The transition from the terran campaign to the zerg campaign in the original was the only real genius of the plot I felt. Leaving Kerrigan to die was one of the last things that happens before you sta…

That's certainly true for the first programming class, but I don't think it has any effect on the first theory class.

Can't find the relevant blog post, but I believe this was known in the SEO community as the "Vince Update."

We do filter near-duplicates within the same set of results. You'll likely see only one copy of an AP story with a link at the bottom saying something like "Repeat this search with the omitted results…

>"We're obviously doing OK overall, our search share, usership, and profits are up every quarter. Let's not rock the boat by starting a war with these content mills, which would surely include law…

You only remember the queries that don't work. :) Seriously though, we've measurably seen people expect more from search engines over time, so if your impression has stayed constant then we are doing …

Give me some examples if you can. I'll send them around.

Totally with you, but the other commentators in this thread were suggesting that 23andMe shouldn't exist in its current form, which I _strongly_ disagree with.

>ignoring punctuation like ? and ! Google has done this since launch, I don't think it's a recent trend. I agree though that searching for programming information isn't great. (It's even harder wi…

One anecdote that I heard from people involved with the CMU admissions criteria for CS. In addition to GPA, leadership skills, etc. they used to also look for something interesting technical that you'…

I can guarantee you that no one in search quality, outside perhaps of the people who work in ui, care one bit about the revenue effects of what we do. Someone in the company certainly does, but not an…

>Why aren't sites that scrape content blacklisted? The problem is more difficult than you'd think. For instance, virtually every news organization "scrapes" the associated press, but we wouldn't w…

I work in search quality at Google, and while certainly not everyone agrees that it's a problem, a lot of people do. I could write a lot about this, but the central issue is that it is very very hard …

I wonder how many people would be happy to "delegate their vote" if there was some officially supported way of doing it. This would be an interesting way of reimagining representative democracy in the…

My nexus used to be one. Then I installed aldiko and started reading books all the time instead. I'm much happier now.

So, to show that this market doesn't need to be shut down, I must find an example of a market with no regulation?

All data is flawed. What matters is whether the data is too flawed to be useful.

Bad example. s/car/computer/g. Computers are equally impenetrable for the average person, but they still somehow find ways of making reasonable decisions when buying them.

>To be clear, this is not a case of Car and Driver favoring German engineering but JD Powers always skewing towards American manufacturers (completely contrived example, BTW). In this case the sta…

>One of the really interesting things about the human genome project was that the scientists involved knew that these sorts of hard questions would come up, so they really emphasized the human and…

And for some reason you think this is different from any other field? I don't have a prayer when I walk into a car dealership of figuring out whether a car I'm thinking of buying will function properl…

>Now, you might think that 23andMe has a chance of solving this issue, by allowing people to take control of their own genetic profiling, but I think they're actually doing more harm than good. 23…

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