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It quite something that web search pioneers have totally devalued information neutrality. Perhaps truth never mattered to the founders, as it does to us. Had t
by ColinHayhurst 5y ago
It quite something that web search pioneers have totally devalued information neutrality. Perhaps truth never mattered to the founders, as it does to us.
Had to check it out, on a device myself. Surely this is fake, but no, it's real. You can say "so what, this is a business decision; Google can do what they like." Maybe it makes some people feel good. But meanwhile it makes others even angrier. The contribution is further division of society, and not just in the US. As a citizen actions like this trouble me greatly.
What are the factors in Google's business decision here?
- yucky 5y agoNot directly related to the 45th President, but along the same lines...I actually found it funny that when I search for "NCAA basketball schedule" or "NCAA March Madness" and the top results are from the women's tournament, which of course very few people watch or are interested in. This has been happening all through March Madness. Thought it was just a cache issue or some other explanation so I had a few other people test it and they all got the same thing. So what do we have here, the "most useful result that the user is searching for" (which is the official Google position on SERP's) or a company trying to use its control over information to decide what we are supposed to see? And of course this is only obvious in cases like the above, imagine all of the shit they hide (or manually modify results for) that you wouldn't know since you don't know what you don't know..