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“we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.” -- Sergey Brin a
by leephillips 2y ago
“we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.”
-- Sergey Brin and Larry Page
http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-advertising-and-search-engine-bias/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-advertising-and-search-e...
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- marginalia_nu 2y agoAppendix A in this paper is a gem as well: http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
- leephillips 2y agoContains the quote above and “The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.” So what we observe in the deterioration of Google search was predicted by its creators, who made the deliberate decision to let this happen by accepting advertising.
- marginalia_nu 2y agoGoogle went public in 2004, after that I don't think any amount of founder idealism could have saved it from shareholder pressure. If anything it's remarkable they held out as long as they did.
- philistine 2y agoIt’s so unfortunate that no one inside Google is taking any decision to clearly make things worse. It’s simply the structure of their business that is fundamentally wrong, and their founders had correctly identified the problem right at the start.