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I wonder if they're getting cash kickbacks from established corporate media outlets for pushing their material to the top of the search results. That would act
by photochemsyn 5y ago
I wonder if they're getting cash kickbacks from established corporate media outlets for pushing their material to the top of the search results. That would actually be less creepy than if its being done as some kind of information manipulation program.
It's high time Google and other search engines were forced to expose the inner workings of their ranking algorithms to the public, particularly now that they have near-monopoly power in the sector. People should also be able to adjust the dials on the algorithm themselves.
- otherotherchris 5y agoIn Australia, Google is being blackmailed into boosting Fairfax, Newscorp and Seven West Media content higher up in their index. It's reached a point where most queries are useless if they contain a word or even a synonym for that word that has been recently used in a major media site owned by those three. I use Google through a VPN to avoid it. That breaks maps integration.
- DaedPsyker 5y agoI'm curious, why go through the hassle of a VPN rather than another search engine? Are the other results so poor or do the others do the same as Google?