The leak reportedly details what data Google collects for ranking.

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.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    364·
    6 months ago

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

    I would have never guessed that.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      972·
      6 months ago

      Crazy how self regulation always winds up like this. By crazy I mean predictable of course.

        • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          321·
          6 months ago

          Listen, the problem is too many regulations prevented the Invisible Hand from manifesting. If we remove even more regulations the free market will work this time, I swear.

      • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
        122·
        6 months ago

        You’re supposed to move to a different search engine for the market to work. I already have, have you?

        • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          10·
          6 months ago

          This approach is doomed to fail, so long as the general public isn’t aware of the problem or its scale. Government regulation is the only way.

          • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            It’s enough if an alternative reached even 1%. That would still be billions of searches a year, enough to keep them running

        • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          I did years ago when Google started censoring my search results even with safe search off.

          Unfortunately Bing is doing it too now and I can’t find a search engine that isn’t, though I would love to learn about one that isn’t.

          • Fungah@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            6 months ago

            This is the issue. they’re all shit. Even kagi often fails to deliver useful results. Its the best of the bunch but AFAIK their own crawler is very reliant on google.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        104·
        6 months ago

        This doesn’t have anything to with regulation. This is mainly a bunch of SEO and marketing people whining that Google hasn’t been honest with them in telling them exactly how to game their search engine.