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- ceedee, on 04/10/2008, -1/+3Good work, Alexander!
- Beamerboy, on 04/12/2008, -1/+2Google are not the only search engine
- Beamerboy, on 04/11/2008, -1/+2Hackeron
You Phail
Read the article, search engines do not return the same results in the same order for consecutive searches. Results are returned on a pseudo random basis (with weighting but still pseudo random) so you would not simply be able to run the same search from another location not behind Phorm and assume the results should be the same.
If you can't read don't make stupid comments. - popper1, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2good work
- Snuxoll, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2And here we thought comcast was up to some nasty *****, well, the more things to hate on the better I suppose, the digg community could always use more ;)
- hackeron, on 04/12/2008, -1/+1If Phorm were going to alter search engine results, google would most certainly be the first candidate.
- hackeron, on 04/12/2008, -2/+1Beamerboy, I have 2 internet connections, 1 is on Virgin Media and whatismyipaddress reports the location as somewhere in central london and one from Bulldog which is reported somewhere in Essex - I ran 2 google searches on the 2 internet connections and received identical results.
The weighing may be psuedo random but when caching on the search engine's site occurs, you will get the same results everywhere - otherwise the search would be too CPU intensive,
Now if Phorm were to insert results or do any kind of re-organizing, you would see it. - hackeron, on 04/11/2008, -2/+1How would you prove this? -- use a proxy with encryption and compare the results! -- This is like when search results were filtered in China and everyone knew about it within hours - this is a non story, burried.
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