Are you searching for “aslkfja- stowerk;asndf” or “aslkfjastowerk;asndf”?

Searching for [aslkfja- stowerk;asndf] on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, @Neeva, @YouSearchEngine , and @mojeek.

Query parsing choices made by Google make it the only search engine providing no reference to the use of the term (rendered as such) by Golebiewski & boyd (2018).

— Daniel Griffin (@danielsgriffin) October 19, 2022

Granted, the “- “ appears to be an artifact of end-of-line hyphenation retained when copying from the PDF. In their 2019 follow-up report on data voids Golebiewski & boyd render the term “aslkfjastowerk;asndf”, for which Google does return results.

• citations:
  • Golebiewski & boyd’s “Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited.” (2018), in Data & Society. https://datasociety.net/library/data-voids-where-missing-data-can-easily-be-exploited/ [golebiewski2018data]
  • Golebiewski & boyd’s “Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited.” (2019), in Data & Society. https://datasociety.net/library/data-voids/ [golebiewski2019data]
• See: ad z’njinz’tum

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This page was published on 2022-10-19.