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There’s a reason that misleading claims of bias in search and social media enjoy such traction.
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Brendan Berney
Brendan Berney
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read

An interesting article, but one point is overlooked. It is all very well demanding openness around relevance ranking algorithms, but the reason they are closely guarded secrets in the first place, is to prevent them being 'gamed' by people who want their results to appear first for whatever reason, commercial or political.

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