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"Everyone" has been pointing to a dystopian future, 1984 by George Orwell. I think this article is closer to the mark. What say you?
Information is garbage
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1984 (1984) was a good movie and realistic when you think about the newer tech breaching biology.
The author has a great point. There's too much white noise out there. What if there was a search engine that vetted peer-reviewed content? Imagine Google Scholar but for everything. It would be similar to Wikipedia where everyone can contribute to reducing noise. Even here on Rallypoint there are users who on the average day only deliver crap.
SN Greg Wright , SSgt Mark Lines , 1LT Sandy Annala , PO1 John Miller, what yall think?
The author has a great point. There's too much white noise out there. What if there was a search engine that vetted peer-reviewed content? Imagine Google Scholar but for everything. It would be similar to Wikipedia where everyone can contribute to reducing noise. Even here on Rallypoint there are users who on the average day only deliver crap.
SN Greg Wright , SSgt Mark Lines , 1LT Sandy Annala , PO1 John Miller, what yall think?
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It may not be exactly what you're getting at, but if I'm not mistaken Bing is set up somewhat like that. I actually interviewed/trained for a position as a Bing Content Advisor (or whatever they were calling the position). Basically my inputs were to help generate relative search results.
It may not be exactly what you're getting at, but if I'm not mistaken Bing is set up somewhat like that. I actually interviewed/trained for a position as a Bing Content Advisor (or whatever they were calling the position). Basically my inputs were to help generate relative search results.
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PO1 John Miller - Google does that based on location, search history, etc.. But many internet search results are retrieved simply because of good SEO and words in the right spots within metadata.
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Very true when you think about it. It also helps if you know a few tricks concerning Google searches. Like putting quotes around your string so it will only search specifically for that.
Very true when you think about it. It also helps if you know a few tricks concerning Google searches. Like putting quotes around your string so it will only search specifically for that.
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I couldn't disagree with the article more. To say we have too much information is to imply we would be better off with less information. Does anyone want to go back to that world? I remember when TVs only had 13 channels, and only 5 of them actually received anything. Your options for being informed were to watch one of the three network news shows, listen to radio news, or read a newspaper.
Nothing wrong with choosing to do any one of those things, but when that was all that was available, it meant the information we consumed was first chosen and filtered by a very small handful of people. That meant when someone like Walter Cronkite deliberately presented a decisive American military victory to America as a stunning defeat, there wasn't a damned thing anyone could do about it.
Is there a lot of useless and/or incorrect information out there? Certainly. But I trust myself to pick through it and to decide for myself what to consume and what to ignore.
Nothing wrong with choosing to do any one of those things, but when that was all that was available, it meant the information we consumed was first chosen and filtered by a very small handful of people. That meant when someone like Walter Cronkite deliberately presented a decisive American military victory to America as a stunning defeat, there wasn't a damned thing anyone could do about it.
Is there a lot of useless and/or incorrect information out there? Certainly. But I trust myself to pick through it and to decide for myself what to consume and what to ignore.
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