2008/5/31 Pablo Manuel Rizzo <[email protected]>:
Pero no me refería a la publicidad sino a la selección que hacen en la búsqueda, lo que nos muestran, ocultan o priorizan en los resultados de nuestra consulta.
Ah, entendí mal entonces. Sobre lo que vos decis, el libre mercado se encargó de que tengamos el mejor buscador posible. Antes que Google domine los buscadores, habia varios en que competian parejo (altavista era lider, tambien yahoo), pero empezaron a darle prioridad a los resultados en función de los patrocinantes. Ibas a las paginas para anunciantes y ellos te ofrecian comprar keywords. Justo ahi salio Google y su politica de hacer el "page rank" y mantenerlo todo lo que sea posible (dentro de lo legal). Por ejemplo MS saco su buscador, ponias Linux y te encontrabas con una pagina de MS sobre eso (creo que la de la campaña mentirosa de "get the facts") (*). La gente no es boluda, se dió cuenta que no encontraba la pagina mas relevante y cambio de buscador. Y eso que los usuarios de Windows son bastante cautivos porque por defecto el buscador es el de MS, pero asi y todo la gente lo ha modificado. Volviendo a Google, mantienen sus resultados a pesar que a muchos no le gusten, como ocurre el caso de cuando buscas "jew", que el primer resultado (en inglés) es una página antisemita. Es sabida la influencia (social/politica/economica) de los judios en USA que presionaron para cambiar eso, sin embargo Google sigue mostrando lo que dice el algoritmo como mas relevante. Mira la explicación abajo, especialmente el parrafo que empieza con "The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results.". An explanation of our search results. If you recently used Google to search for the word "Jew," you may have seen results that were very disturbing. We assure you that the views expressed by the sites in your results are not in any way endorsed by Google. We'd like to explain why you're seeing these results when you conduct this search. A site's ranking in Google's search results relies heavily on computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page's relevance to a given query. Sometimes subtleties of language cause anomalies to appear that cannot be predicted. A search for "Jew" brings up one such unexpected result. If you use Google to search for "Judaism," "Jewish" or "Jewish people," the results are informative and relevant. So why is a search for "Jew" different? One reason is that the word "Jew" is often used in an anti-Semitic context. Jewish organizations are more likely to use the word "Jewish" when talking about members of their faith. The word has become somewhat charged linguistically, as noted on websites devoted to Jewish topics such as these: * http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/vol01/vol01.174 * http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah081500.asp Someone searching for information on Jewish people would be more likely to enter terms like "Judaism," "Jewish people," or "Jews" than the single word "Jew." In fact, prior to this incident, the word "Jew" only appeared about once in every 10 million search queries. Now it's likely that the great majority of searches on Google for "Jew" are by people who have heard about this issue and want to see the results for themselves. The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results. Individual citizens and public interest groups do periodically urge us to remove particular links or otherwise adjust search results. Although Google reserves the right to address such requests individually, Google views the comprehensiveness of our search results as an extremely important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it. We will, however, remove pages from our results if we believe the page (or its site) violates our Webmaster Guidelines, if we believe we are required to do so by law, or at the request of the webmaster who is responsible for the page. We apologize for the upsetting nature of the experience you had using Google and appreciate your taking the time to inform us about it. Sincerely, The Google Team p.s. You may be interested in some additional information the Anti-Defamation League has posted about this issue at http://www.adl.org/rumors/google_search_rumors.asp. In addition, we call your attention to Google's search results on this topic. (*) Hoy repetí la busqueda en el buscador de MS y la primera respuesta es "www.grulic.org.ar/linux.html". Los directivos de MS tampoco son giles y ahora tratan de dar a los usuarios lo que ellos quieren. -- Sebastián Bassi (セバスティアン). Diplomado en Ciencia y Tecnología. Curso Biologia molecular para programadores: http://tinyurl.com/2vv8w6 Mostrá tu código: http://www.pastecode.com.ar GPG Fingerprint: 9470 0980 620D ABFC BE63 A4A4 A3DE C97D 8422 D43D