Re: Solomon''s curse and search Bias - a possible solution

Fully agree with Frank Manola. If we are worried about future generations, the solution is not to change the technology to fix all problems (impossible), but rather to teach critical thinking and reading and searching skills.
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From: Frank Manola <fmanola@verizon.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 3, 2019 11:09:12 AM
To: paoladimaio10@googlemail.com
Cc: Carl Wimmer; SW-forum
Subject: Re: Solomon''s curse and search Bias - a possible solution

Simply adding “bible” to the search terms in Google results in a first page with NO references to the book at all.  And in the old days if you’d gone to a librarian with your search, the librarian would certainly have asked for more search terms (“Do you mean the book or the king in the Bible?”).  It seems to me one solution to your problem is to teach future generations how to do disambiguation (which applies to a lot more than just searches).

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On Mar 3, 2019, at 2:53 AM, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com<mailto:paola.dimaio@gmail.com>> wrote:

Carl
thanks for reply-


On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 2:47 PM Carl Wimmer <carl@correlationconcepts.com<mailto:carl@correlationconcepts.com>> wrote:.

Someone has already made a decision as to what is important and what can be ignored. The practical result for you is that any elements already deemed unimportant are instantly invisible to you, with no way of bringing them to the surface.

well, in this case, who would be 'someone' ?  Isnt it an algortirmic bias?

You used Google. Now, of course, Google can never be accused of filtering any results to their own benefit. That would be unthinkable. Usurping results for some self serving economic or political gain is dastardly and I am sure they would never do it.

what search engine do you use

What is required is a complete shift from Search (index and heuristics) as a means of addressing information.

sounds interesting but I d be tempted to build that on top of index based search, rather than attempting to replace it


The first requirement is a system that can assemble a complete set of possibilities in response to any query, simple or complex.

ok- I accept that - at the same time we have spent several decades attempting to find some
agreement of what we can consider ''complete''  taking the universe as the top set

what about  ... a systemt that can assemble an economically computable . configurable and  transparently accountable set of possibilitis.....
Now by that I mean: do show the book entitled solomon curse in the results, but POINT to
where the book got it name from.... this kind of proventance/traceablity can be easily automated in todays web
no?  for example : search result 1.>>>>>relation to>>>>result2 etc, where relation can be anything from
'sounds like'' to ''its a parody of' to inspired by   etc

The second requirement is that the user can select from a list (hopefully a very long list) of filtering tools to derive truth from connections/possibilities.
sure

He or she might wish to see the query results from a variety of viewpoints to gain perspective.

Let me give an example to illustrate:

Two facts are in evidence ...

The Alpha Motor Car Company made 100 million in profit last year .... and ...

they fired 5,000 workers.

Now comes the viewpoints to interpret the two fact.

From the worker's union point of view (schema) ... those bastards, they made a hundred million and they fired 5,000 of the guys that made that profit possible for them.

From the shareholder's  point of view (schema) ... we only made 100 million on all that investment, .. fire 5,000 more workers.

From management's point of view (schema) ... Well, how we managed to make any cars at all at the outrageous wages demanded by the union is a miracle. The only reason we were able to sell any of those cars was because we surrendered to the low offers made by the customers, squeezing us from the top. We managed to get some designs for products for next year and we ground out 100 million in profit.

I like viewpoints but....  needs some work to implement them in the open web.... assuming there shall be one.....

Not as good as Toyota down the street but better than GM up the block. All in all, not a bad year.

Now you see the framework for the solution to your problem. The schemas are not used to derive the possibilities (that has to be done by a new system of addressing information) but they are used to sort and qualify the results from as many different points of view as possible to gain real perspective.

viewpoints are a technical standard which could be one way to solve this bias


thanks Carl
Good question





On 3/2/2019 9:07 PM, Paola Di Maio wrote:

I wanted to share a concern, as I know posts gets read and issued picked up and addressed in time

I searched Google today for Solomon Curse, trying to find some references to some historical cause and conditions in the first house of David - not in relation to a specific race, but more in relation to the history of the modern world
to see if anyone is following up the courses and recourses of history
https://www.iep.utm.edu/vico/


Well, I was shocked to see that the first page of results were all about a book and its author, and nothing
about history came up at all.  I had to add additional words to create some context to dig up some
historical references.

Just wanted to point out that I am very concerned about future generations receiving a distorted
version of history by heavily commercially biased search results when typing some search terms and
getting only/mostly the results from one entity, rather than a representation of the plurality of meanings and contexts

Bias is a known problem in searches, however I was hoping that by now we would have
some mechanisms to reduce this bias? Doesn't look like it.

I hope that schema.org<http://schema.org> could help that by creating metaschemas for disambiguation
or other mechanism, such a representation of context which should include at least
two perspectives: the domain a search term is present, and the time/chronology (to show which came first)

 Just a sunday morning note before digging in more confusing knowledge from search results

PDM

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