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Old Jun 15, 2012, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by fishsandwich View Post
Google's search algorithm creeps me out for other reasons, too. Like how the first hit on any news item I search is from the newspaper I work at . . . which is not a newspaper with even a small circulation in this country. So how does the Googlemachine know I am somehow associated with that paper?!?
Google gives you results based on previous searches and results. I watched an interesting talk on this subject a year or so ago. That's why you can't tell someone "do a google search on X" and the first hit will be "Y." Even the types of results you get vary. Some people will be given videos, for example, and others won't.

Of course this was before the last big change.
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