[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 13, Issue 65 (was Wikipedia must change with Googling)

Fri Aug 27 01:57:12 UTC 2004

On 26 Aug 2004, at 23:02, wikien-l-request at Wikipedia.org wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:08:26 +0100
> From: Pete/Pcb21 <pete_pcb21_wpmail at pcbartlett.com>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 13, Issue 65
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> Rick wrote:
>
>> Why not?  It's going to bring up every article with the term "George 
>> Washington" in it, and if [[George Washington's underwear]] begins 
>> ... [[George Washington]] wore white [[boxer shorts]], then Google 
>> will certainly pick it up.
>> that algorithm would be very much broken.
>
> If Google listed it that highly (in GW's case in the first dozen pages
> or so) then people are clearly interested in it, and that is a strong
> argument for having the article.
>
> Pete

'''Pete's paradox''', a concept from the fields of [[philosophy]] and 
[[logic]], is a [[paradox|paradoxical]] series of statements, which can 
be summed up as follows:

# [[Google]] returns unwanted search results which users are not 
interested in.
# External causes to Google's delivery of unwanted search results are 
defined as nonexistent.
# Google is implied to be perfect.
# Thus, users must be interested in the unwanted search results.

== See also ==
* [[Epimenides paradox]]
* [[Eubulides of Miletus]]' [[Liar paradox]]

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