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Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates.

The leaked documents touch on topics like what kind of data Google collects and uses, which sites Google elevates for sensitive topics like elections, how Google handles small websites, and more. Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives, according to Fishkin and King.

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 62 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No problem we crowdsource the crawling torrent style.

We outsourced that to google for reasonnable performance reason. But they shit the bed so now there's no choice but to do it ourselves.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ooh that might be an interesting app to run on veilid

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is that and how does it apply ?

[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Veilid is a peer-to-peer network and application framework released by the Cult of the Dead Cow on August 11, 2023, at DEF CON 31.[1][2][3][4] Described by its authors as "like Tor, but for apps",[5] it is written in Rust, and runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS,[6] and in-browser WASM.[7] VeilidChat is a secure messaging application built on Veilid.[1][4]

Veilid borrows from both the Tor anonymising router and the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), to offer encrypted and anonymous peer-to-peer connection using a 256-bit public key as the only visible ID. Even details such as IP addresses are hidden.[4]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veilid