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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.

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10•2 years ago
Cory Doctorow’s post this morning – Google’s enshittification memos

“Google search is so bad you might as well ask Jeeves.”
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  I’d fucking love for altavista or ask jeeves to come back and put the screws to Google.

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