Google cranks up the Consensus Engine

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Google cranks up the Consensus Engine ? The Register

Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It's a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance.

 

[nevele]

Make no mistake, Google is moving into new territory: not only making arbitrary, editorial choices - really no different to Fox News, say, or any other media organization. It's now in the business of validating and manufacturing consent: not only reporting what people say, but how you should think.

who really expected it to last as long as it has?

 

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All in the name of "user experience quality".

 

[Demon]

This is getting out of hand. Google needs a real competitor already.

 

[affiliatearmy]

no doubt.

This is getting out of hand. Google needs a real competitor already.

You would think a company with the power and funds such as Microsoft could compete (and beat) a company like google....

But they keep getting their asses handed to them. Prob too focused on software sales...

 

[micfire]

Hehe.. bring it on.. I have some medicine for you my dear Google...

 

[Bofu2U]

Anyone know any VC's? I'll start a Google competitor. It'll be so cool we'll - GREAT SCOTT! We'll call it cuil-oh wait.

 

[HarveyJ]

There have been a few people that have tried to compete with Google.
Google has offered them a garbage truck full of money and some stock options, and they just give their code up like that.
It happens all the time. You really think Google makes all of the improvements to its algorithm internally?

It's kind of sad really.
Google started out as a company that just wanted to make searching easier, and turned into this juggernaut so quickly that I get the feeling even Page & Brin don't know what the fuck happened. I doubt they're bothering to question it either, and their just swimming in vaults of coinage, like Scrooge McDuck, now.

 

[thunderlips]

You would think a company with the power and funds such as Microsoft could compete (and beat) a company like google....

But they keep getting their asses handed to them. Prob too focused on software sales...

and they f that up too

 

[bishi]

We'll call it cuil-oh wait.

lol don't think we will be forgetting that epic fail

 

[xmcp123]

Wow. I stand corrected.ish. It's not quite a hand selection..but fucka.

 

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Hard to compete with Google.

Been there, done that, got our asses handed to us.

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