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		dehrmann on May 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Siri, What Time Is It in London? Reminds me of a bug I kept having to resurrect at Spotify: the first result for "Billie Jean" was an admittedly good cover by The Civil Wars, but the result was clearly wrong. And it wasn't a case of "Man Who Sold the World," "Hurt," or "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" where the cover is arguably the definitive version. Turns out search is hard. Oh, and if you search for "Billy Jean?" Still broken.

wrsh07 on May 22, 2020 [–]

At some point I wonder if business incentives are a problem

Eg does Spotify pay more to play the original than the one by The Civil Wars?

If so, how much money are they saving by such "bugs"?

And if not, how is popularity (use an objective ish metric, eg wiki page length) not a major feature?

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