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I think Google's personalization of search is good for filtering out noise in most day-to-day searching. If an individual finds personalization of search to be
by m3ta 10y ago
I think Google's personalization of search is good for filtering out noise in most day-to-day searching.
If an individual finds personalization of search to be a barrier to finding diversified news, they could always use incognito and search among many different search engines for the most diversified results.
Merkel's solution to the problem is to add another roadbump via government intervention. The real solution is already in the users' hands.
- hackuser 10y ago> If an individual finds personalization of search to be a barrier to finding diversified news, they could always use incognito and search among many different search engines Few people will do those things. Most people do not understand Icognito and won't look at the second page of search results, much less use multiple search engines. I wonder how many are even aware of other search engines. The reality is that the search engines' personalization algorithms determine what users see.
- m3ta 10y agoThe reality is also that the quality of users' search results is directly correlated to the skill of the searcher and consequently the quality of their searching process. Our two statements are not mutually exclusive.
- tormeh 10y agoYou look at it as a problem for the user - the user isn't getting the diversity of opinion they want to get. Merkel looks at it as a problem for society - people aren't getting the diversity of opinion they should get. If I wanted diversity of opinion, I would go to Breitbart, but I don't want to. Maybe it would broaden my perspective to do so, but I can't be arsed. I've been there once, but it was mostly an exercise in social anthropology.