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Google is really your friend

Post by tamada » July 27, 2024, 9:18 am

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Post by Declan MacPherson » July 29, 2024, 2:29 pm

Not really. Google manipulates searches.

Elon Musk is the latest to point this out in a post 3 hours ago.

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Google has a search ban going on anything Trump.

By now, maybe Google has come out and apologized and called it a "glitch" -- like they are apt to do.
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Post by jackspratt » July 29, 2024, 3:38 pm

Declan MacPherson wrote:
July 29, 2024, 2:29 pm
Not really. Google manipulates searches.

Elon Musk is the latest to point this out in a post 3 hours ago.


Google search ban.png


Google has a search ban going on anything Trump.

By now, maybe Google has come out and apologized and called it a "glitch" -- like they are apt to do.
More nonsense, from both of you.

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Post by glalt » July 29, 2024, 6:26 pm

Since AI, Google is NOT your friend. There is nothing that you can trust to be true.

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Post by Whistler » July 29, 2024, 6:52 pm

glalt wrote:
July 29, 2024, 6:26 pm
Since AI, Google is NOT your friend. There is nothing that you can trust to be true.
Not really, AI is greatly overhyped. It is neither a monster or a sliver bullet. It is an analytical tool but is quite limited, very poor at forward predictions. Google was always a bit of an AI tool so no need to fret.

To claim, as some do on here that search engines are deliberately engineered to deliver biased results is ting tong. Search on Google by all means and look at results, then look at source of content uncovered by Google and determine if it is credible. All Google does is cross index data on the WWW, it does not create content.
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Post by jackspratt » July 29, 2024, 9:12 pm

glalt wrote:
July 29, 2024, 6:26 pm
Since AI, Google is NOT your friend. There is nothing that you can trust to be true.
I'll be happy to trust my instincts, guided by my experience, which have served me pretty well so far.

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Post by glalt » July 30, 2024, 9:32 am

The give away of money from Social Security was blatantly false and it is still making rounds. AI is responsible for that lie. AI looks for similar posts and condenses them. AI has no regard whether they are true or false.

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Post by Whistler » July 30, 2024, 9:48 am

Condenses them? Do you mean concateinates them? I have never seen google join two separate pieces of content together. Do you have an example?
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Post by glalt » July 30, 2024, 11:29 am

The fake SS money giveaway is the best example.

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Post by Whistler » July 30, 2024, 12:21 pm

glalt wrote:
July 30, 2024, 11:29 am
The fake SS money giveaway is the best example.
Can you tell me what you typed into the google search to see this?
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Post by Whistler » July 31, 2024, 10:09 am

Glalt, this has nothing to do with AI. A Google search indexed a scam article. There is heaps of misinformation on the www, google has no ability to deduce if the article is true or not, it simply reports kn what is found. The best thing we can all do with rubbish like this is report it to Google and they should, I repeat should, stop it being found on searches
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Re: Google is really your friend

Post by glalt » August 4, 2024, 11:26 am

Google and Microsoft both us AI. Copilot Is now shown on Windows.

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Post by Whistler » August 4, 2024, 11:32 am

glalt wrote:
August 4, 2024, 11:26 am
Google and Microsoft both us AI. Copilot Is now shown on Windows.
Google does NOT USE Copilot as part of its search algorithms. It intends to integrate Copilot to provide enhanced results.
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Re: Google is really your friend

Post by glalt » August 4, 2024, 11:43 am

glalt wrote:
August 4, 2024, 11:26 am
Google and Microsoft both use AI. Copilot Is now shown on Windows.

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Post by Whistler » August 4, 2024, 12:07 pm

glalt wrote:
August 4, 2024, 11:43 am
glalt wrote:
August 4, 2024, 11:26 am
Google and Microsoft both use AI. Copilot Is now shown on Windows.
your point is?

Microsoft also has Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Dynamics XP, Dynamics NAV, Linkedin and a host of other software suites, none of these are used by the Bing Search engine, ditto Copilot. Google has Google words, Chat, meet, drive etc, none of these are used for the Google search app, ditto Copilot.

Google already has one of the most advanced AI engines in the world called TensorFlow, that is not used by Google search either. Neither company's search engines concatenate disparate pieces of content, nor does any of these products create content. Copilot is used with TensorFlow as it's AI engine, TensorFlow has been around for years.

You seem to be alluding to a change in the world of search engines to locate content, now that AI is becoming prominent. That simply has not happened. You clearly do not understand how AI or ML works or you would not be posting the comments you have made.
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Re: Google is really your friend

Post by glalt » August 4, 2024, 12:53 pm

I readily admit that I don't know. I do know that search inquiries contain a lot of erroneous information. That is my complaint.

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