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Right. But Google will answer a query with his contribution at the top of it with a mere name search if one knows to ask. Likely no one here knows who Gregg Geis is but he implemented markup hypertext widgets for windows that were XML before XML existed and before Andreesen/Bina implemented HTML which was a much easier job. Markup has a history like rock n roll: innovators without big enough hits don't make the VH-1 Top 100. The use of popularity in a time frame to establish invention is a pretty lousy business rule because it makes Pat Boone the inventor of rock and roll. That biases will enter a KR system is unavoidable. That a third system can auto identify and even chart the ontological distance between the multiple points of view created by multiple ontologies seems feasible. This and market pressures should be sufficient to sort out most filtering done by search engines. The tricky bit is authoritative systems. If the golem governs and has no feedback to the process by which it is selected for that role, that is a problem. Fortunately, I think it is solvable and then it becomes an issue of scale or in a multi-layered set of process/controls, finding the right process to adjust that does not cascade unpredictably. len From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...] > 1. The general arguments that 'free enterprise > are free of responsibility' are made for many companies Agreed; I was glossing over this point and reacting to the tangential issue of pot calling kettle black. I think this applies as well to publications like "perrspectives". I would like to see all such venues publish completely open lists of pointers to conflicting/contrasting viewpoints, as a matter of responsible advocacy. In fact, I think Google is a great boon to people who want to hear "the other side" of any story, and annotation services could also be very useful. > 2. The example of Google was provided to show just > how quickly biases propagate. Their effects are OK, I see that point now. This is the whole "Google as amplifier/echo-chamber" syndrome. I once again note that Eric Bina has virtually been erased from the history of web browsers.
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