We need to use duckduckgo.com or https://www.startpage.com/do/m ypage.pl?prf=233d8eea3d0c70b29e866cb4ff04bf8b
Actually I think this will block a lot of real, accurate news. Just because a news story is offensive, or from an anti-goverment site, doesn't mean the story is wrong. Many times it may be wrong, but many of those stories are accurate, and carry the side of the story the government doesn't want you to hear. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/03/16/google-fl ags-offensive-content-search-results/99235548/ Google starts flagging offensive content in search results Jessica Guynn , USA TODAY Published 1:01 p.m. ET March 16, 2017 | Updated 1:20 p.m. ET March 16, 2017 SAN FRANCISCO — With growing criticism over misinformation in search results, Google is taking a harder look at potentially "upsetting" or "offensive" content, tapping humans to aid its computer algorithms to deliver more factually accurate and less inflammatory results. The humans are Google's 10,000 independent contractors who work as what Google calls quality raters. They are given searches based on real queries to score the results, and they operate based on guidelines provided by Google. On Tuesday they were handed a new one: to hunt for "Upsetting-Offensive" content such as hate or violence against a group of people, racial slurs or offensive terminology, graphic violence including animal cruelty or child abuse or explicit information about harmful activities such as human trafficking, according to guidelines posted by Google. The goal: to steer people with queries such as "did the Holocaust happen" to trustworthy websites and not to websites that engage in falsehoods or hate speech. Facebook users are fed up with fake news Can the fake news trend be de-escalated? The Internet giant is using data from quality raters to spot "demonstrably inaccurate information," Paul Haahr, a Google senior engineer involved with search quality, said in an interview with industry blog Search Engine Land. Haahr told Search Engine Land that Google is avoiding the term "fake news" because it is too vague. How it works: Google, for example, advises its quality raters that a search result from white supremacist website Stormfront that denies the Holocaust happened should be flagged as upsetting or offensive content while a result from the History Channel describing what happened during the Holocaust should not. Quality raters don't have the ability to change how search results are ranked but feedback from these contractors is used by engineers and machine learning systems to improve search results, according to Google. It declined to comment on the new guideline. Danny Sullivan, founding editor of Search Engine Land, says results for the query "did the Holocaust happen" have improved. That's in part due to the ranking change and in part to the outrage in response to the search results. It's unclear how much of an impact the new mandate for quality raters will have on the search results people see. Google has also come under fire for the snippets it puts at the top of search results. A number of those have been inaccurate. "We will see how some of this works out. I'll be honest. We’re learning as we go," Haahr told Search Engine Land. __ ------------------------------ [image: Avast logo] <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmNjRiODk5BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0ODk5ODYyNjI-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlcXU2M2d2BF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQ4OTk4NjI2Mg--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
