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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? UNIX.com is getting crushed in google search these days Post 303035887 by bakunin on Thursday 6th of June 2019 02:43:28 PM
Old 06-06-2019
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Originally Posted by MichaelFelt
I wonder what "social" problem they are trying to solve now.
Just some guesses: (a) increase profit (b) maximise stock price (c) increase CEOs bonus (d) all of the further.

There is simply no such thing as a "search engine" - there is a "profit generating engine" using search options to generate that profit. Google doesn't want you to find anything. They just use the fact that you are (sometimes - often enough to come back) finding what you search for as the vehicle to generate the profit. Except for that purpose the quality of their search algorithm is of no concern for them.

I mean: we all had to share the infrastructure "roads" with our vehicles, so we created some rules (traffic laws) and chipped all in to enforce them (by paying the police from our taxes). Of course, such things are pure socialism and will never work. The free market can take care of such things far better and exactly how much better it can do that is the state of affairs we encounter with Google (and all the others) today. On one hand the algorithms are sadly broken because nobody is (genuinely - that is, as a primary motive) interested to make them work and on the other hand everybody is convinced that it is better to be found, no matter how. How often i have searched for "X" and gotten a website dealing only with "Y" because some ultra-cool kid thought that being found for "X" AND "Y" generates more traffic than only being found for "Y" alone i cannot count. So, the system is absolutely free (read: FUBAR) from both sides now and isn't that great? "Freedom" means we are free from the means of using things - what a great new world!

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Net::Google::Code::Issue(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Net::Google::Code::Issue(3pm)

NAME
Net::Google::Code::Issue - Google Code Issue SYNOPSIS
use Net::Google::Code::Issue; my $issue = Net::Google::Code::Issue->new( project => 'net-google-code' ); $issue->load(42); DESCRIPTION
ATTRIBUTES
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load parse updated the last comment's date. create comment, summary, status, owner, cc, labels, files. update comment, summary, status, owner, merge_into, cc, labels, blocked_on, files. list( q => '', can => '', author => '', id => '', label => '', max_results => '', owner => '', published_min => '', published_max => '', updated_min => '', updated_max => '', start_index => '' ) google's api way to get/search issues return a list of loaded issues in list context, a ref to the list otherwise. load_comments google's api way to get and load comments( no scraping is done here ) parse_hybrid when $USE_HYBRID is true, we will try to load issue with the google's official api, but as the api is not complete, we still need to do scraping to load something( e.g. attachments ), this method is used to do this. AUTHOR
sunnavy "<sunnavy@bestpractical.com>" LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2008-2010 Best Practical Solutions. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2010-04-28 Net::Google::Code::Issue(3pm)
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