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Do you really see a real problem here? Closed-minded people want to get results that are accurate to their opinions, preferences, etc. The best way to make the
by mgl 15y ago
Do you really see a real problem here?
Closed-minded people want to get results that are accurate to their opinions, preferences, etc. The best way to make them satisfied is to re-use their search/browsing history and return results biased toward them. There is nothing wrong with that, we all do that in normal life to some point choosing people, events and places similar to us.
Open-minded people will always look for alternatives, they will like to see options, thus still looking for valuable information but according to different points of view. And this is why there are different newspapers on the market - some of them present the one and only vision of reality, others prefer to start a discussion about the real meaning of the facts.
And in the same way different search and recommendation engines will be enriched with such options, so we can have a choice. Otherwise we will leave looking for a service that does.
- Wilduck 15y agoI agree that there are probably market forces at play here. Duck Duck Go definitely fills a niche. However, I disagree with your distinction between open and closed minded individuals. I think both styles are useful, but the first is for times when you're already informed and know what you're looking for, and the second for when you're uninformed and want a diversity of results.
- icedpulleys 15y agoI've yet to hear someone define what useful, diverse set of results is that has been filtered from them; they simply state that the sites that they see on Google, FB, et al. are filtered and that some other filtered pages could hypothetically be useful. What diverse results do you want to see that you aren't seeing now, and how could they potentially be useful? This is an easy experiment. Submit a google query while logged in, and open an incognito Chrome window and submit the same query there. Compare the search results. What would have been helpful that you didn't see in your filter "bubble"?