Comments on: Online Illness Early Detection http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/online-illness-early-detection/ Your Daily Fix of Neuroscience, Skepticism, and Critical Thinking Sun, 19 May 2013 01:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: sonic http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/online-illness-early-detection/comment-page-1/#comment-51472 sonic Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:45:16 +0000 http://theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=5386#comment-51472 Google puts up prompts on searches now-- when I start typing it gives a few choices as to how I might finish the search request. I wonder if this feature doesn't skew the results. I can see the day when Google sells the prompts to organizations so that the organizations can use the # of searches as evidence for the need for some political action. Maybe I'm getting a bit overly cynical lately. :-) Google puts up prompts on searches now– when I start typing it gives a few choices as to how I might finish the search request.
I wonder if this feature doesn’t skew the results.
I can see the day when Google sells the prompts to organizations so that the organizations can use the # of searches as evidence for the need for some political action.

Maybe I’m getting a bit overly cynical lately. :-)

]]> By: Bronze Dog http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/online-illness-early-detection/comment-page-1/#comment-51466 Bronze Dog Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:30:11 +0000 http://theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=5386#comment-51466 Unintended consequences. Yeah, that's something the internet has been producing for quite a while. There were probably a lot of naive people who thought it'd be a reliable source of scientific information for the public but didn't count on all the quacks, denialists, and time cube nuts having a forum and even organizing themselves more effectively. Unintended consequences. Yeah, that’s something the internet has been producing for quite a while. There were probably a lot of naive people who thought it’d be a reliable source of scientific information for the public but didn’t count on all the quacks, denialists, and time cube nuts having a forum and even organizing themselves more effectively.

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