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Do nonprofits really lack conflicts of interest? Mozilla for example? I have no idea.

• dreamcompiler 7y ago
  Probably nobody has no conflicts of interest ever. But right now Google is heavily biased toward advertising and data collection which is not good for -- pretty much everybody.
  • shripadk 7y ago
    Then how do you propose companies market their products/services? You want us all to go back to pre-90s era where advertising was controlled by few media conglomerates who favoured only the giant corporations? Today, a mom-and-pop store has as much an equal footing as a big-box store when it comes to advertising their products/services online. Spammy articles should be dealt with the way spam is dealt with in email. Pruning is the way forward in my opinion. Consistent cleaning of the search results of spam and ensuring high quality results should be the priority. I don't understand why the tech crowd is so anti-advertising. I rather the tech crowd focuses on coming up with solutions to remove bad advertising methods rather than do away with advertising all together. The latter will just cause big job losses and the ones affected won't be the large corporations but small business that rely on these cost-effective advertising solutions.
    • dreamcompiler 7y ago
      I don't think advertising is bad, provided: 1. It's easy for people to tell the difference between advertising and not-advertising. 2. The collection of private information is strictly opt-in, owned by the collectee, and deletable by the collectee. 3. Advertising is a healthy competitive industry with no one company controlling a majority of the business. None of those things is true in the Googleverse today.
      • shripadk 7y ago
        I agree with all your points! Makes sense.