Saturday, December 12, 2009

Google's flawed "AlGoreithm"

When you start entering a search term into Google's standard search page, Google will display a list of words or phrases with the most "hits" using those letters. For example, if you enter "w-a-t-e-r-g", Google will return suggested search terms like "watergeeks" "water glass" and "watergate". Strangely however, if you enter the letters "c-l-i-m-a-t-e-g", Google will suggesting words like "climateguard" (27,300 hits) and "climatemp" (25,000 hits) while avoiding the term "climategate" (>14,000,000 hits). You don't suppose the anomalous behavior of this AlGoreithm has anything to do with Al Gore being a Senior Adviser to Google?

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