steveb - 10:45 pm on Sep 9, 2009 (gmt 0)

"Best 1000 results is not the same as the best single result."

Of course it is. Seriously some of you guys are simply talking about some nonsensical idea that has nothing to do with what Google does, tries to do, or what Schmidt is talking about.

And this pure nonsense that it is somehow bad that Google returning the best results for each customer is anethema to the human spirit is ridiculous at best.

"That is NOT what is being discussed here and there is no need to twist this into something it isn't."

You a few of you are twisting Schmidt's words into a fully illogical, silly bit of FUD. The thread started with a quote from Schmidt and now you are saying "that is NOT" what is being discussed here... but THAT IS WHAT HE SAID!

All this FUD over Schmidt stating the freaking obvious is so far over the top it boggles the mind.

"Do you really not have a problem with Google serving up only one answer to a political question?"

Honest to god, forget the FUD being spread by some of the posters here. Of course there is ONE result, and ONE group of results that Google could serve up to ME that answers the query that *I* type the best.

That ONE group of results would be DIFFERENT FOR EVERY PERSON ALIVE. This fuddy nonsense that seems to be pretending that what Schmidt said is that every single person would see the exact _same_ result is absurd and insulting. It's as if some of you guys haven't been paying attention for the past decade of Google gathering data every freaking way it can, and working to personalize their results.

Wake the heck up and stop talking about this crazy stuff and realize the issue here is the invasion of privacy needed to accomplish the goal of serving up the best results possible to each searcher.

"In Google's 'one answer' utopia, however, I would never know that from searching Google"

Why would you say something so ridicuous? By definition if YOU want dissenting viewpoints in the results, as you are saying here, then the ONE group of results for YOU would include them! If *I* don't want dissenting results, then my ONE group would not have any. If some crackpot ONLY wanted dissenting results, then his ONE, best-for-him results would include only dissenting results.

Get it?

If 563 people search [global warming] on September 10, 2019, Schmidt wants to return 563 different groups of 1000 results, with each person getting the ONE set of results for themselves that is perfect for THEM, and NOT anyone else (except by coincidence).

Let's focus on the correct borg, that they want to suck every bit of data about all of us into their algo and servers to deliver the best one set of results for every searcher, not this silly FUD.