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

submitted 7 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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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives

I would have never guessed that.

[–] flappy@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Jako301@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

How is that even supposed to work? These search engines need per definition massive databanks to search through. Either you need your own crawler and indexer which is more than just inefficient, or you are limited to a relatively short list of curated static results.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Federated bookmarks?

[–] Paradox@lemdro.id -1 points 7 months ago

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