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A great article that explains a lot of things that happen on the web. For starters take google, they sell attention, to the advertiser´s products, viewers migh
by joseakle 19y ago
A great article that explains a lot of things that happen on the web.
For starters take google, they sell attention, to the advertiser´s products, viewers might then decide to buy something; qvc showcases products; your friends on facebook, etc. grab your attention. I guess all of the advertising industry lives on attention and therefore much of the entertainment industry (games, movies, news, tv, social networks) too. Maybe even competing with the education industry.
Other tools (wesabe) save you time so you can direct your attention to what you are interested in.
- michael_nielsen 19y agoThere's a very interesting indirect link between the article and Google: one of the people thanked at the end of the article is Terry Winograd, an AI pioneer who also happened to be Larry Page's grad supervisor at Stanford, right about the time this article was written! Winograd is also a co-author on at least one of the early PageRank articles.