"Open core" overloaded [LWN.net]

"Open core" overloaded

Posted Jul 25, 2010 12:24 UTC (Sun) by hingo (guest, #14792)
In reply to: "Open core" overloaded by job
Parent article: Neary: Rotten to the (Open) Core?

There is no absolute truth in Google anymore, the results are much more personalized than they once were. I get 6 search results for the business model term, 1 unrelated Java result and 3 for opencores.org.

If you want people to use some other term, why not contact those who use it. Personally, I think it is just too late.

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"Open core" overloaded

Posted Jul 31, 2010 20:56 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (3 responses)

That might not have been personalization. You could just have had a different set of machines win the race to provide you with answers. Google is a massively distributed system: in such systems, cross-node consistency is the first thing to go.

"Open core" overloaded

Posted Aug 1, 2010 11:32 UTC (Sun) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] (2 responses)

"There is no standard google any more." 57 personalization signals. Ditto FB. @elipariser of moveon talks about "filter bubbles" at #pdf10
twitter.com/timoreilly

Since "job" is clearly active in open hardware, and I've been active in the open source related debate, I would still guess on personalization as that makes more sense than assuming that we got well personalized results just due to chance.

"Open core" overloaded

Posted Aug 8, 2010 13:13 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

But you *do* get different results in consecutive search queries due to chance. Several systems with slightly different datasets race to give you results, and whichever happens to get there first is the one you see the results from (very roughly).

Don't assume that all variability is due to some sort of evil personalization. Some of it is an efficiency hack.

"Open core" overloaded

Posted Aug 11, 2010 7:31 UTC (Wed) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

Interesting. I never knew your Google results were so very much personalized. That will give the SEOs something to loose sleep over.