Re: Google "related" search bias?

I don't get it, you think google has a bias because it says that PHP is related to Perl, but Perl is not related to PHP? Or that Perl is not related to SQL. Or that Perl doesn't have any tutorials worth searching for.

Or that Perl doesn't have a plan when it comes to physicians? (I hear it's pretty well regarded by biologists, does that count?)

What point were you trying to make?

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Re^2: Google "related" search bias? by bart (Canon) on Jan 17, 2007 at 12:41 UTC
The former, I think. To me it reads as if Google thinks that people looking for Perl actually want PHP, but people interested in PHP, don't want Perl.	[reply]
Re^2: Google "related" search bias? by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 17, 2007 at 14:00 UTC
I think his point is that he meant to search for "tin foil hats foil mind control rays the truth is out there scully" and instead got PHP results. The Cigaret Smoking Man was unavailable for comment.	[reply]
Re^2: Google "related" search bias? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 17, 2007 at 18:15 UTC
What point were you trying to make? I just think it's completely ridiculous and therefore somewhat amusing and bizarre that the world's most popular search engine seems to think that the #1 "related" search to "perl" is something like "php". My most paranoid theory involves Zend secretly paying Google for sponsored "related" links. More likely some fanboys are somehow google bombing the algorithm that calculates what's related. I am doubting that it really is the most related search, whatever that means. --OP	[reply]