Google is starting to redirect searches away from offensive, upsetting or inaccurate websites. Google is using its 10,000 independent contractors who work as Google’s quality raters who are given searches based on real queries to score the results. The quality raters use Google guidelines.
Quality raters now look for “Upsetting-Offensive” content such as hate or violence against a group of people, racial slurs or offensive terminology, graphic violence including animal cruelty or child abuse or explicit information about harmful activities such as human trafficking.
The purpose is to steer people with queries such as “did the Holocaust happen” to trustworthy websites and not to websites that engage in falsehoods or hate speech. Google is using its quality raters to spot “demonstrably inaccurate information,” said Paul Haahr, a Google senior engineer involved with search quality.
Google advises its quality raters that a search result from white supremacist website Stormfront that denies the Holocaust happened should be flagged as upsetting or offensive content while a result from the History Channel describing what happened during the Holocaust should not be upsetting or offensive.
Feedback from the quality raters is used by engineers and machine learning systems to improve search results.
“We will see how some of this works out. I’ll be honest. We’re learning as we go,” Haahr said.
Imagine what could happen to websites that feature God’s last message of warning to the world, when that message is considered to be offensive or inaccurate?
“We have no time to lose. The end is near. The passage from place to place to spread the truth will soon be hedged with dangers on the right hand and on the left. Everything will be placed to obstruct the way of the Lord’s messengers, so that they will not be able to do that which it is possible for them to do now. We must look our work fairly in the face and advance as fast as possible in aggressive warfare. From the light given me of God I know that the powers of darkness are working with intense energy from beneath, and with stealthy tread Satan is advancing to take those who are now asleep, as a wolf taking his prey. We have warnings now which we may give, a work now which we may do; but soon it will be more difficult than we can imagine. God help us to keep in the channel of light, to work with our eyes fastened on Jesus our Leader, and patiently, perseveringly press on to gain the victory.” Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 6, page 22.
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Letila
Tuesday March 28th, 2017 at 05:05 PMAmen so true Pr Hal Mater.
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Tuesday March 28th, 2017 at 07:20 PMGoogle has always been a tool for the Surveillance system… and of course we know that the CEO met with Pope Frances, and the CEO of Microsoft met with Pope Frances and they gather data. This is the tech savvy way the Catholic Inquisition is operated.