Google definitely biased…

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Aug 11 08:37:09 PDT 2014


On 8/11/14, 8:34 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Am 11.08.2014 17:23, schrieb Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d:
>> … so what's new?
>>
>> I was trying to search for web-based material on D ranges and Go slices
>> to see if they are basically the same thing. As soon as golang is a
>> query term, no other language makes it onto the front page of the query
>> results, cf. "dlang range slice golang"
>>
>> Google definitely try to push Go :-)
>>
>
> I've just heard a few days ago from someone who *always* gets the
> suggestion to search for "golang" instead of "dlang", so it's not even
> possible to properly search for dlang results alone.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dlang%20-golang&gws_rd=ssl

I wouldn't be surprised if there's some manual biasing at work, but I 
don't think there is.

Andrei



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