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How is that less biased, as opposed to less personal? Or do you mean that companies shouldn’t be biased to your preferences as a customer?
by traderjane 7y ago
How is that less biased, as opposed to less personal? Or do you mean that companies shouldn’t be biased to your preferences as a customer?
- ok_coo 7y agoSearch engines could bias towards our preferences as consumers if they weren't a monopoly and didn't sell/place ads in the search results. That's the problem with Google and I think we're too far down this path for them to fix it. We've been watching this slow walk to where they are for a long time and I think people have just become to used to it to notice how insidious the situation has become.
- rjf72 7y agoIs the company biased towards their interest or towards the customer's? If Google was simply a provider of information then the answer would be that those are one and the same. But they obviously are not. One conflict that already provides an irreconcilable conflict of interest is the fact that they are primarily an advertising company - and the world's largest one at that. There are countless other issues that could also be brought up to emphasize conflicts of interest, but that's not really necessary. That their primary business is selling advertisements creates too large of a conflict of interest to ever expect "customized" search results to be anything but manipulative.