Post #2046852
2025-05-11 19:42 UTC
@ocean As predicted by Brin and Page: "we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers." (The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, 1998 - http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html)
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@khleedril@cyberplace.social 2025-05-11 21:07
@itamarst @ocean That was back when Google pledged, and did, no evil. Since then they've told us they are going to be evil.
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@aarbrk@mstdn.mx 2025-05-11 23:52
@itamarst @ocean Great catch with this source! If only we had spent the interim setting up an alternative in the public interest. (Actually, is it too late?)
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@Hawaii@mastodon.world 2025-05-12 01:59
@itamarst @ocean Search goes the way of modern news media.