08-26-2018, 05:13 PM
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Re: I'm tired of Google's algorithms thinking they know what I want and ruining the n
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Originally Posted by choof
most of the other paintings of black people near the top are all from an exhibit called "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe" that ran a few years ago.
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yes, well, the mona lisa and whatnot should be toward the top of what someone searches for "european art", or at least that seems self-evident to me and it's odd that this would be toward the top of search of this kind.
search engine optimization is fine, but this appears to go beyond that.
and no, I am not
"""upset about paintings of black people""" that's... clearly not what I'm objecting to. if it was, my dating history would leave a lot to be accounted for.
politicization could go the other way, too -- forcing paintings of any kind into search results when they don't belong there would be objectionable. had google been populated by 2006-era republicans, the search results would probably prioritize christian artists over all else.
politicization is bad. optimization is fine.
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