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Dom Jun 1 23:25:09 CEST 2008

2008/5/31 Pablo Manuel Rizzo <info at pablorizzo.com>:
> 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.

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