Who knew he ran a “climate denying” web site?
Seriously, having Google decide what is “true” and false is a really bad idea. For instance, it would probably make it much more difficult to break through all the crap nutrition advice.
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“Facts the web unanimously agrees on are considered a reasonable proxy for truth.”
“Web pages that contain contradictory information are bumped down the rankings.”
Ummm…
Can’t see how that could possibly go wrong.
Who has a problem with adding massive positive feedback to a system? If you’re trying to play nice music but the room is a little noisy, surely the solution is to put an extra microphone right in front of the speakers…
“Anti-science”, per Salon.
Salon.
Oh, humor.
Time to break up Google.
So Google is now the Ministry of Truth. Great.
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” – John Gilmore.
Salon still exists?
News to me too. Shocking really. Salon, a Clinton scandal, it is like the late 20th Century all over again.
Anthony Watts denies that there’s such a thing as climate? That’s a surprise to me.
Google already plays games with searches for political purposes, no? This isn’t really any different. Look at what happened with CAGW at Wikipedia; Google will be like that, but we won’t even know who the editor is. They’ll start by disappearing CAGW-skeptical sites, but that’ll just be the beginning.
For a while Google was shutting down anti-Obama blogs. They had to backtrack on that. The experiment might be an example of a common phenomenon: Leftists attempting to devise an objective test that they imagine will prove conservatives are scum. This is then followed by dropping it when the test gives answers they don’t like.
Has Salon achieved inverse infallibility yet?