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“advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased...”-Google (1998)
- jgmmo 11y agoSkip to 8 Appendix A for the discussion about advertising, motives, and bias.
- Coding_Cat 11y agoI found the following excerpt particularly funny: > A good example was OpenText, which was reported to be selling companies the right to be listed at the top of the search results for particular queries. [...] This business model resulted in an uproar, and OpenText has ceased to be a viable search engine. ...So exactly like Google is doing now?
- jgmmo 11y agoI also thought this interesting. On second read though, trying to give them a more charitable interpretation, I realized maybe they believe since they are using ads that are 'clearly labeled as ads' it is a different thing - as opposed to OpenText just moving an ad into the top ranked search result spot and thus when using OpenText youd never know if you are looking at the real result or an ad.
- Coding_Cat 11y ago> 'clearly labeled as ads' As your quotes might very well imply, they've been making the ads more and more hidden and at this point the faint yellow background is no more than lip-service to the idea of clearly marking paid promotions. IMHO.
- heimatau 11y agoAdvertisers have the money though, not common folk (wealth gap is only getting wider). The business model would be difficult to do but could be realized in the years to come.
- rokhayakebe 11y agoI think someone killed this thread. Admin could you please explain why?
- staunch 11y agoI sent an email to ask. It is curious and suspicious.
- rokhayakebe 11y agoVery.
- staunch 11y agoThe mods ate it, for what seems to me to be capricious editorial reasons, but oh well.
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