by Flemming Funch
From Cory Doctorow: More from Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, speaking at Supernova: "People who are thinking about committing suicide search Google for 'suicide.' Depending on what they find, they may or may not kill themselves. There are businesses that depend on the kind of results that searchers get from Google, but that's very secondary compared to searches like 'suicide.'" What they would get is this. Which is good. But is that because these were automatically selected as the most authoritative references on suicide, or did Google cheat a little and manually select these as the best to show? What would happen if the top page happened to be a collection of grisly pictures of people who killed themselves in spectacular ways?
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