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October 1, 2006
Noting the continuing decay in the quality of algorithm-generated search results - the current top Google result for a search on "Martin Luther King," for example, is a page created by white supremacists - CNET's Elinor Mills suggests that parents should encourage their kids to consult librarians instead of search engines when doing research. Bizarrely, a Google spokesperson defends the King result as an example of the "integrity" of the company's algorithm: "In this particular example, the page is relevant to the query and many people have linked to it, giving it more PageRank than some of the other pages."
Posted by nick at October 1, 2006 11:40 AM