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Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)

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A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates.

The leaked documents touch on topics like what kind of data Google collects and uses, which sites Google elevates for sensitive topics like elections, how Google handles small websites, and more. Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives, according to Fishkin and King.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

rubs hands together

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Does Google still have a search algorithm? I thought they now just feed everything into a huge LLM and let it regurgitate statistically plausible answers.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Oh thank the tiny gods...

I thought this was going to be a leak of actual information.

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