Interesting, wonder if Google's algorithm is even prepared to rank "there is no good answer" as a good result. I mean it's optimized to provide good answers, if there is no good answer perhaps the algorithm just breaks apart completely.

I mean, there has to be pages that say: there are no good answers (but we also can't say it's vaccines).

Also, I wonder why I'm being downvoted. Google meddling with search results is nothing new, sometimes they're even legally/politically forced to do so. Assuming we get unfiltered results is very naive.

"is even prepared to rank "there is no good answer" as a good result"

Try an experiment, look at this this:

No results found for "cow thiophenol romanesque establishment".

The search result without the quotes seems to just be noise, any random page about cows or romanesque architecture or thiophenols.

Not to detract from your observation, but just as an aside, I wanted to mention that less than an hour after your comment, googling for "cow thiophenol romanesque establishment" (with or without quotes) lists this very page as the first result. Google must be indexing certain sites (like HN) very frequently.

Actually, it seems some site called "Hacker News" has a page on that stuff, but accessing it just led to a discussion about Autism in adults. Go figure...

A whole other issue is their bubble. Once you start clicking certain links etc, Google will take that history into account when sorting the results. Thus you get into a "positive" feedback loop...

I have a question that maybe you can help me with.

Why do people care that other people's children aren't vaccinated? If your children are vaccinated they're protected, period. Who cares about other people's children, especially if they have all sorts of unfounded ideas about vaccination? Why not live and let live? Why do people want to force other people to vaccinate their children? I never understood that but I'm sure I'm missing something hugely obvious.

I would vaccinate my children but I don't understand why I should also join some movement that is trying to force other people to do something they don't want.

Because it's not, "your children are vaccinated they're protected, period." The vaccines are not 100% effective, and an extremely small portion of the population shouldn't be vaccinated. For the sake of the people who aren't immune, it's best if the vast majority of people around them are immune.

> For the sake of the people who aren't immune, it's best if the vast majority of people around them are immune.

And what is the plan to go about that?

Just force-vaccinate these folks' children, something they vehemently oppose, thus traumatizing both parents and children in the process? What is the proposed plan to go about this in a way that is acceptable to both sides? Or is it the case that these anti-vaxxers shouldn't be respected and should have no rights just because they believe a fantasy? Because if that's going to be the new standard we'll have to have a giant conversation about gods.

Some amount of kids can't get vaccinated due to medical reasons, it's not safe for them.

And if less than 80% - 90% of the total population are unvaccinated, you get these large outbreaks like we're seeing today. At 95%, it's a lot harder for that happen.