Perhaps the designers are consciously or unconsciously incorporating an agenda into the search algorithm. Instead of finding those things you want to know, the algorithm steers you towards things that the designers think you need to know?
harry On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 3:25 PM Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chris Zell <chrisz...@wetmtv.com> wrote: > > >> Google often does this in ignoring search terms, as happened to me >> recently in looking for a chain saw part. > > > Yes. I have a strange feeling Google has this problem more than it used > to. I wonder if they need to tweak their algorithm? The other day I was > looking for "fission reactor power density" and it kept giving me > references to energy density. Which is a completely different thing. Today > I was looking for "average monthly cost of natural gas" or "residential > monthly bill," but it kept telling me the cost per therm. > > > Regarding fission reactor power density, I finally found this, by the way: > > https://aris.iaea.org/sites/core.html > > I think one of the column headings is incorrect. It says: > > Average core power density > [kW/kgU] > > I think it should say: > > Average Core power density [kW/l] > > That makes more sense. Also, that is the heading for these same numbers > are in another table: > > https://aris.iaea.org/sites/power.html > >
