I'm referring to "algorithmic" in its negative usage as short-hand for what you can see as of late with regard to Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook's suggestion engines where more complex sorting and filtering is happening than a simple ORDER_BY.

Sure, not the best short-hand, but it seems most people understood what I meant.

For example, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Like this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184282 where people will shorten the "evil" to just "the algorithm".