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Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates.

The leaked documents touch on topics like what kind of data Google collects and uses, which sites Google elevates for sensitive topics like elections, how Google handles small websites, and more. Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives, according to Fishkin and King.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 5 months ago (39 children)

Can't wait for selfhosted web search to become better.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago (25 children)

You mean hosting your own crawler/indexer? That doesn't really sound like a thing you could do cost-effectively.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Federated bookmarks?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Federated directories. We're going back to Yahoo like it's 1995

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Webrings!!!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Uh...I know we're all just having fun here, but I need to be part of a webring again. If anyone is more than joking, I kinda need to know about it. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

there are tons of webring still going these days!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Seriously? Cool. I'm going to go do some research then. And maybe entirely change the purpose of my blog, just to fit into one...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

can you share a link to it if you're comfortable with that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I loved Geocities!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Neocities is trying to be a modern reincarnation https://neocities.org/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I mistook that as neopets

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yahoo patiently plotting its return from Japan.

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