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This is what monopoly abuse looks like in the age of surveillance capitalism. Google are able to raise the cognitive price on users because they’ve cornered the market. If they … Read more
via WSJ: Senate lawmakers proposed bipartisan legislation that would require search engines to disclose the algorithms they use in ranking internet searches and give consumers an option for unfiltered searches. … Read more
I just noticed maybe a week ago that it seemed really terrible. I guess it’s not just me — Premature Accumulation Pajama Microscalper (@MoMoBagholder) October 27, 2019 IMHO duckduckgo tech … Read more
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=abc+lies+syria+knob+creek One day after ABC was caught using doctored (cropped, edited and darkened) footage of the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky and attempting to pass it off to … Read more
by mdb3301 Was doing some research for speech about Jeffrey Epstein at school and was getting really frustrated with google refusing to show me what I was searching for. Thought … Read more
Shameful: Trump Labor appointee forced to resign after Bloomberg portrays sarcastic 2016 Facebook post as anti-Semitic. What’s particularly amazing is that [Bloomberg reporter Ben] Penn, the reporter on the story, is showing no remorse, … Read more
by His-Disgrace So I saw somewhere once that the number of RV sales declining is a recession indicator but I used google trends to look at the gap between Used … Read more
The ability to find information, can be taken away at any time. Search engines like duckduckgo and startpage are great, but they are actually customers of the google search engine. … Read more
by Orangutan This isn’t about being able to work around search blacklists to find certain information, it’s about how we are being steered toward a future where we will not … Read more
by SP Search Results CNN 5 of the world’s biggest economies are at risk of recession “The bottom line is that the German economy is teetering on the edge of … Read more
via antiwar: America, John Quincy Adams said in 1821, “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is … Read more
Google-owned YouTube manually adjusted search results for “Federal Reserve” after MSNBC host Chris Hayes complained about the prominence of anti-Fed videos in the top results, according to a source who worked … Read more
by mixsomnia Jack poulson talks about why he resigned from google due to ethical concerns Here is his resignation letter: www.documentcloud.org/documents/4905801-Jack-Poulson-Google-resignation-letter-20-Aug-2018.html And here is a transcript Q/A where he goes … Read more
Google has made it easier than ever for parties to manipulate search results and give you false and fake information on things that should be very readily available. There is … Read more
Recently a number of researchers discovered that the FBI was using its own posts as evidence for a search warrant for IPs on 8chan. I go into this as well … Read more
Minds are being shaped at Google’s direction as alternative content creators are being squeezed out….here’s how it works.