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Arek Bekiersz

@samir Today I tried to quickly translate a rare word using #Google, back & forth to my native language. Of course I could directly use their separate #GoogleTranslate tool, but wanted to find synonyms.

Guess what: it was impossible to search for that word. Google kept replacing it with another, almost similar word, a homonym. Each time. In all results.

I’m used to this ridiculness for some time. But usually I could force them to return back to the desired word. Not anymore

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Leonore

@bekieark @samir I’ve noticed that too! It used to present the option to search for what you actually typed in _all the time_.But now that option is sometimes not present even while they did change the typed input. I was blown away when i first saw that.

Urban Hermit

@bekieark @samir Google is the Walmartinization of the internet. We only have what the majority looks for, nothing else.

Arek Bekiersz

@Urban_Hermit It is a pity that the #Google algorithms, among them #PageRank and #HITS, which were the primary building block of Page & Brin's #IT empire, are now reduced to a mere cherry scent on big, commercial, ad-based #ML revenue-generating cake 😒

We were using these algorithms during our #graphTheory lectures, as simple, yet surprizingly powerful #networkAnalysis tools.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_alg

researchgate.net/profile/Sigit

@Urban_Hermit It is a pity that the #Google algorithms, among them #PageRank and #HITS, which were the primary building block of Page & Brin's #IT empire, are now reduced to a mere cherry scent on big, commercial, ad-based #ML revenue-generating cake 😒

We were using these algorithms during our #graphTheory lectures, as simple, yet surprizingly powerful #networkAnalysis tools.

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