Saturday, May 07, 2005
Uh-Oh!
Michael Medved did an entire hour this week about potential political bias at Google. It sounded more like bad quality control than actual bias to me, but then Little Green Footballs came up with some further examples.
But I got really worried when I read this.
Stay tuned to this blog, we won't let a biased Google filter keep us from the important stuff.
But I got really worried when I read this.
Web search leader Google Inc. has applied for U.S. and international patents on technology to rank stories on its news site based on the quality of the news source, according to patent applications obtained by Reuters on Thursday.How exactly will "quality" be judged. This sounds like anti-Internet stuff to me. The best thing about the WWW is the ability to find stuff that used to be filtered out.
Stay tuned to this blog, we won't let a biased Google filter keep us from the important stuff.
