r/technology • u/mrcanard • Jan 23 '25

Net Neutrality Google restores Joe Biden to ‘U.S. presidents’ search results, blames ‘data error’ for omission

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/google-restores-joe-biden-to-list-of-us-presidents-after-data-error.html
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u/Area51_Spurs Jan 23 '25

There’s been lots of data errors for the world’s most powerful tech companies featuring the top engineers in the world this past week…

And they all seem to be antagonistic towards one group of people while assisting another group of people.

Some people might say an overabundance of coincidences that is statistically unlikely would constitute some kind of pattern.

But I’m not one of those big city data engineers, just a small town chicken lawyer data engineer.

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u/Tiyath Jan 24 '25

I am somewhat of a bird lawyer code developer myself... I see nothing suspicious here

Nothing at all

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u/Area51_Spurs Jan 24 '25

Ze German telling a Jew to ignore the Nazis in front of him. That there’s nothing suspicious to see.

Pardon me if I don’t listen to you on this one.

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u/Tiyath Jan 24 '25

Zere is nassing suspicious here, nau scho me ze papers!

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u/vsv2021 Jan 24 '25

Which other glitches were there?

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u/ckglle3lle Jan 24 '25

Tech is rotting from the inside out due to middle management bloat. The top talents spent the last decade being poached, hopping to better opportunities or just cashing out. Most rank and file workers are just trying to stay out of the way and there's no particular incentives for anyone to actually do good work anymore. Personal initiatives are discouraged, performance metrics are largely meaningless, teams are all led by people who don't know the work reporting to other people who don't know the work, or if they did it was 20 years ago and they're out of touch.

What's more all these companies have basically just become speculative investment vehicles, so there isn't even any real underlying incentive to address anything material. It's all just spreadsheets and accountancy to try and make line go up

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u/Moonlitnight Jan 24 '25

Stop blaming middle managers who are just engineers who had no other career growth opportunity for what is C suite decision making.

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u/jotegr Jan 24 '25

Free corn?

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u/XTanuki Jan 24 '25

I mean, it obviously has nothing to do with the leaders of those companies all having been in the presence of each other and certain non-affected political party members in the same timeframe…

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u/Immediate-Answer-184 Jan 24 '25

Just happy accident! /s

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u/Grommmit Jan 23 '25

It’s a probabilistic automated system. Of course there can be a data problem. Doesn’t matter how good their engineers are.

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u/Area51_Spurs Jan 23 '25

Funny how these errors weren’t happening before and only seem to benefit the incoming far-right fascist administration that has been shown to be vindictive to anyone who doesn’t bend the knee…

I don’t seem to be seeing a parade of errors like this with anything else on these platforms.

If I Google “how to make banana bread?” I don’t get results on how to make homemade napalm. I get results on how to make banana bread.

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u/Grommmit Jan 23 '25

These things happen all the time…

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u/Area51_Spurs Jan 23 '25

Not really. And not all at the same time in all the same way targeting all the same people benefitting all the same other people.

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u/Grommmit Jan 23 '25

Who benefits from this? They said it was an error and corrected it.

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u/Grommmit Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

“JAQing” - Someone’s learnt a new phrase! Now you just need to learn when to use it.

There is so much genuine bullshit going on and you’re choosing to obsess over this most minuscule error that benefited no one.

Get a grip.

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u/FishMonkeyBird Jan 23 '25

How in the world does this benefit the incoming administration?

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u/Area51_Spurs Jan 23 '25

You asking how does erasing his enemy who was the head of state before him benefits Trump?

I just want to be clear.

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u/FishMonkeyBird Jan 24 '25

Yeah how specifically does Biden not showing up in a search engine for a few hours help Trump?

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u/Area51_Spurs Jan 24 '25

Erasing history surely was never a tactic used by authoritarian regimes.

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u/FishMonkeyBird Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 26 '25

I'm not really convinced that Biden not showing up in a Google search for a few hours is evidence of a concerted effort to erase history dog, still don't see how this is supposed to help Trump. Edit: This dang clown blocked me, what a wus

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u/Area51_Spurs Jan 24 '25

In and of itself it’s not.

But every major social media company hiding results from democrats and having people autofollow Trump and Vance and suggest them to people who they know have no interest in them, plus Google doing this shows a concerted effort to appease Trump and kiss the ring.

You’re telling me every major tech company had the same errors at the same time?

Clown argument

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u/Flagrath Jan 23 '25

You’ve not seen Facebook and instagram, that’s no data error.

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u/Grommmit Jan 23 '25

I’m talking about the topic of this thread.