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Letter: Let me decide

Published 25 May 2005

From Graham Philips

I have problems with Google’s proposed method of ranking the articles it finds (30 April, p 24). The whole point of using a search engine is to find multiple related articles regardless of the source. It is not the engine’s job to make judgements, merely to report what is out there and enable readers to make up their own minds.

If I want to see BBC articles, I will add BBC to the search query. When I search on Google I don’t want filtering decisions to be made for me by a computerised AI.

Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK

Issue no. 2501 published 28 May 2005

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