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"May I see it?" "No."

Which is a great description of proprietary software. Without transparency, you cannot trust anything it's doing.

>"May I see it?"

Given what we've seen from the likes of Cambridge Analytica, this seems like a question of national security.

Yeah, it'd be nice if there were a transparent search engine.

Not even DDG lets us see the metadata that drives how it makes decisions on what results to return. Not like any of us can debug those search results from our couches.

Rollouts often happen on a per-country basis. Including bugs.

Isn't it more likely to be an external activists who figured out a way to poison Google search results?

The ticket says that this is a problem in a ton of countries (US, UK, Sebia, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Ireland).

Good Simpsons reference!