Comments on: Google Sends Man to Jail, Metaphysically

By: Manchester United Credit Card

Manchester United Credit Card — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:29:48 +0000

Blogs do not have professional content because the content is user generated.

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Sat, 31 May 2008 16:01:08 +0000

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By: Matt DONT Cutts

Matt DONT Cutts — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:53:17 +0000

Please talk about the actual story!

And Now Wait and see what our “Matt WHO ALWAYS Cutts” will say??

By: Tony A.A.

Tony A.A. — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:23:04 +0000

Why do I get the feeling that many of the comments are written by the same person?

I personally liked the story. It demonstrates that we still have a long way to go in the IR community in terms of web site summarization and generating meaningful and helpful snippets in search results. This is in fact an active research area in the community and you can find research papers on summarization and snippet generation in the top information retrieval conferences such as WWW and SIGIR.

Keep it up, John!

By: lollers

lollers — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:15:54 +0000

‘in our “post fast and loose” news cycle, someone could be seriously hurt’

pot kettle black, techcrunch?

By: eve

eve — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:07:07 +0000

Actually, the more I think about it… I think I’ll set up a blog with several innocent quotes about myself on it, and then let Google index it falsely, and then sue them for libel (or slander, or whatever).

Man, that’s a million dollar idea! Thanks TC! This is the best idea since the idea that you gave me to buy YHOO at the end of January!

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Googleニュースに囚人扱いされた不運な人

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Googleニュースに囚人扱いされた不運な人 — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:00:23 +0000

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By: eve

eve — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:52:16 +0000

I really liked this story!

Sorry, guys. Usually I am the first one to bash poor articles on here. This is a clever Google result. Maybe it doesn’t belong on TechCrunch, but I liked it.

By: Jack Meoff

Jack Meoff — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:42:35 +0000

Biggs,

You really suck. They’re, I have said it their (there).

- Jack

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:40:07 +0000

this is especially funny in light of Arrington’s headline yesterday which invented a quote from Jerry Yang.

By: Wolke Snow

Wolke Snow — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:11:51 +0000

Is it weekend already?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:04:55 +0000

Personally, I think this is important John.

I’m not a lawyer, but if a human wrote and widely published that statement about a private person, it’d probably be libelous. However, since it’s a machine, I guess there’s no “intent” to harm, plus John Breaux is a public figure which raises the bar on libel/slander/privacy issues/etc.

But I suspect we’ll be wrestling with this more and more as we rely on machines to filter out content for us. And if machines take snippets out of context, extract some meaning from text that wasn’t intended, or displays something as factual because it didn’t “get” the joke or parody, somebody (given our litigious society) is eventually going to be held responsible for that.

Just imagine a poorly-written semantic filter getting the wrong impression of comment #3 with the use of “anal” and “7 year old”, for example.

By: Bill L.

Bill L. — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:59:31 +0000

LOL.

By: P

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:55:45 +0000

Reminds me of the woman who wouldn’t vote for Obama because his name is Hussein. Why does she have a right to vote???

By: P

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:51:32 +0000

This Google result IS bad. Most people probably won’t be following each search result to check the validity of the summary. They’ll subconciously incorporate the snippet as a fact. “If a search result is repeated enough times then it becomes fact.” “That John Breaux…I recall he was convicted of something???”

By: Gir Mala

Gir Mala — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:45:26 +0000

I miss the good old days when blogs like Tech Cruch were real blogs on industry and technology. TC is turning into a DIGG look alike. Is there nothing of material left to write or talk about? i appreciate the dangerous work conditions faced by tower workers, but if I wanted to prosecute ATT, I would read about it on CNN. And now this…. and the debate on english. Disappointing.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:28:59 +0000

“Apparently the algorithm knocked out a few important parts without even adding an ellipses or a “[SNIP!]””

Apparently the algorith read “Rep.” as being the end of a sentence and therefore didn’t think an ellipsis was needed. if they removed the period from the text of the article the sentence would probably not have been snipped there. it doesn’t take a genius to figure this out.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:25:22 +0000

Why is this article on TC ?

By: B

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:07:02 +0000

@20

Did you and John go to the same school?

By: searchgov

searchgov — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:04:40 +0000

is it death of GOOGS?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:56:32 +0000

If some of you are having a hard time understanding the point of this article you seriously need to work on your reading comprehension skills (or lack of).

By: Emil Cohen

Emil Cohen — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:55:32 +0000

“This is very sad story hope he will have computer in is room”

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:54:29 +0000

a new low for TechCrunch in terms of irrelevance, grammar, and arrogance. Time to check out other blogs.

By: Glenn Kelman

Glenn Kelman — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:41:58 +0000

it’s should be its. But nobody cares anymore…

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:39:16 +0000

lol