lie by ommission or perhaps unanticipated results of AI based context filtering
08-27-2016, 07:02 PM
08-27-2016, 07:02 PM
I'm very aware of the information explosion of the internet and expected it to give me more "hit's" that are only tangentially or very distantly related to the words I used, but that's not what bothers me. It's the tracking and the way most search engines use that tracking to filter results.
I'm not happy with the tracking, but what really bothers me is how many modern search engines use tracking information oten based on my past searchs and visited websites to determine what a search will turn up.
Here is an example, a relative who does not have internet, but will sometimes use our internet recently had a baby and for the past few weeks I've had to wade through search results that seem to be geared toward babies. All my words seem to now have the context related to Babys or pregnancy.
The programmers of Goggle and many other search engines are very proud of thier "AI" or probably more accurately an expert system that creates a "context" for your search terms based on the tracking info they have collected about you and what groups they have grouped you with.
Here is another example. Just because I read a large number of Democrat or Republican sites does not mean I want all my results given a political context or even a bias toward one political group.
Currently my two primary search engines are Yahoo and duckduckgo.
I regularly use yahoo search because they provide me with several free email accounts and I treasure duckduckgo not because it claims it doesn't track me, but because it's results aren't usually given a context based on tracking information.
The two search engines above along with more rare forays into Goggle search seem to give me good results. Using these search engines for every search seems to do a good job on all the ommissions the individual seach engines make.
At least for me the 3 search engine approach mentioned above seems to trap out more of the false or misleading information, especially the ommisions.
hmelton
I'm not happy with the tracking, but what really bothers me is how many modern search engines use tracking information oten based on my past searchs and visited websites to determine what a search will turn up.
Here is an example, a relative who does not have internet, but will sometimes use our internet recently had a baby and for the past few weeks I've had to wade through search results that seem to be geared toward babies. All my words seem to now have the context related to Babys or pregnancy.
The programmers of Goggle and many other search engines are very proud of thier "AI" or probably more accurately an expert system that creates a "context" for your search terms based on the tracking info they have collected about you and what groups they have grouped you with.
Here is another example. Just because I read a large number of Democrat or Republican sites does not mean I want all my results given a political context or even a bias toward one political group.
Currently my two primary search engines are Yahoo and duckduckgo.
I regularly use yahoo search because they provide me with several free email accounts and I treasure duckduckgo not because it claims it doesn't track me, but because it's results aren't usually given a context based on tracking information.
The two search engines above along with more rare forays into Goggle search seem to give me good results. Using these search engines for every search seems to do a good job on all the ommissions the individual seach engines make.
At least for me the 3 search engine approach mentioned above seems to trap out more of the false or misleading information, especially the ommisions.
hmelton