Comments on: The new Googlebomb http://ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb Arts and politics of the South Asian diaspora Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:15:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: manish http://ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb/comment-page-1#comment-9110 manish Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:05:33 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb#comment-9110 Please don't feed the trolls. Please don’t feed the trolls.

]]> By: umber desi http://ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb/comment-page-1#comment-9109 umber desi Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:03:56 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb#comment-9109 Runa, I think it is best to ignore people like edsa, I believe it is a troll. Runa,

I think it is best to ignore people like edsa, I believe it is a troll.

]]> By: Runa http://ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb/comment-page-1#comment-9108 Runa Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:58:27 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb#comment-9108 [Ed.: flameage quoted] Stereotype much? Manish, Do you support this kind of open ethnicity bashing? [Ed.: flameage quoted]

Stereotype much?

Manish,

Do you support this kind of open ethnicity bashing?

]]> By: chachaji http://ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb/comment-page-1#comment-9104 chachaji Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:10:08 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb#comment-9104 <blockquote>What is search without search? Content.</blockquote> What is search without <i>your</i> intent? <i>Their</i> directed search into <i>their</i> content.

What is search without search? Content.

What is search without your intent? Their directed search into their content.

]]> By: manish http://ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb/comment-page-1#comment-9097 manish Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:19:57 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb#comment-9097 <blockquote>Now they want to drive the search itself by ‘helping’ you to complete the search string, trying to influence the last thing left in the equation - you. </blockquote> What is search without search? Content.

Now they want to drive the search itself by ‘helping’ you to complete the search string, trying to influence the last thing left in the equation - you.

What is search without search? Content.

]]> By: chachaji http://ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb/comment-page-1#comment-9093 chachaji Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:34:15 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb#comment-9093 The reason the results for how the 'Indians are...' completions are distributed is because those are the most common discussions on Indian blogs - and South Asian American blogs too. Just look around yourself! But the fundamental mistake I see with the 'Google Suggest' idea - is the premise that people are more likely to be looking for <i>things that are already out there in heaps</i>. This is never how my searches go. I always have to refine and re-refine my searches before I find what I really want. It is defensible to base a completion algorithm on <i>actual searches</i> on related strings that other people have done (perhaps matched by your country, whether you are at work or at home, etc). But it is completely another to base a completion algorithm on the multiplicity of partially-matched strings <i>that are already in the content corpus</i>. Google promotes blogging and provides free hosting. It also comes in and archives the blogs into its content corpus. So they are already on two sides of the search - they provide the engine and increasingly, they host the content. Sometime ago, they had cataloged all the Usenet newsgroups into the content corpus. Now they want to drive the search itself by 'helping' you to complete the search string, trying to influence the last thing left in the equation - you. They really seem to be running out of good ideas. BTW, on the 'Pakistanis are' The reason the results for how the ‘Indians are…’ completions are distributed is because those are the most common discussions on Indian blogs - and South Asian American blogs too. Just look around yourself!

But the fundamental mistake I see with the ‘Google Suggest’ idea - is the premise that people are more likely to be looking for things that are already out there in heaps. This is never how my searches go. I always have to refine and re-refine my searches before I find what I really want. It is defensible to base a completion algorithm on actual searches on related strings that other people have done (perhaps matched by your country, whether you are at work or at home, etc). But it is completely another to base a completion algorithm on the multiplicity of partially-matched strings that are already in the content corpus. Google promotes blogging and provides free hosting. It also comes in and archives the blogs into its content corpus. So they are already on two sides of the search - they provide the engine and increasingly, they host the content. Sometime ago, they had cataloged all the Usenet newsgroups into the content corpus. Now they want to drive the search itself by ‘helping’ you to complete the search string, trying to influence the last thing left in the equation - you. They really seem to be running out of good ideas.

BTW, on the ‘Pakistanis are’

]]> By: Cherez http://ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb/comment-page-1#comment-9092 Cherez Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:48:34 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb#comment-9092 fun! so far i've discovered 'turks are...gay' and 'britney spears is...islam.' i smell a new hobby fun! so far i’ve discovered ‘turks are…gay’ and ‘britney spears is…islam.’ i smell a new hobby

]]> By: Minkey Chief http://ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb/comment-page-1#comment-9080 Minkey Chief Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:56:46 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb#comment-9080 And then I find this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6161691.stm. And then I find this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6161691.stm.

]]> By: meena http://ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb/comment-page-1#comment-9075 meena Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:53:25 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb#comment-9075 wow, i thought this was a joke until i googled "indians are"! i wonder if this is (a) the result of indians googling themselves, which might explain the high numbers of searches due to the large population. or if (b) this is the result of very awful impression indians are making upon others!! if it's the latter case, i wonder if the bad impressions are based on bad experiences in personal interactions with indians or on crazy news stories like that often pop up? wow, i thought this was a joke until i googled “indians are”!

i wonder if this is (a) the result of indians googling themselves, which might explain the high numbers of searches due to the large population. or if (b) this is the result of very awful impression indians are making upon others!!

if it’s the latter case, i wonder if the bad impressions are based on bad experiences in personal interactions with indians or on crazy news stories like that often pop up?

]]> By: ashvin http://ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb/comment-page-1#comment-9063 ashvin Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:58:44 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/the-new-googlebomb#comment-9063 That's hilarious. Btw that last phrase "india is my country...sisters" is the first line of the Indian Pledge (of allegiance). So it might not be results stuffing. That’s hilarious. Btw that last phrase “india is my country…sisters” is the first line of the Indian Pledge (of allegiance). So it might not be results stuffing.

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