▲ 127 ▼ Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (www.mayrhofer.eu.org) submitted 3 months ago by rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se [M, B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se 20 comments fedilink hide all child comments Comments
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 12 points 3 months ago (3 children) Google management used to have a moral compass!?!? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago (2 children) I mean, yeah. Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. … For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, 1998 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago He recognises that is the way ahead. He is not saying that it is wrong. He knew the evil and decided to embrace it wholly. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago* But the quote itself admits that the consumers here are the advertisers, it is natural that the users have little say. The users are being milked/harvested/herded/served to the consumers permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago (2 children) I mean, yeah. Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. … For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, 1998 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago He recognises that is the way ahead. He is not saying that it is wrong. He knew the evil and decided to embrace it wholly. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago* But the quote itself admits that the consumers here are the advertisers, it is natural that the users have little say. The users are being milked/harvested/herded/served to the consumers permalink fedilink source parent
[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago He recognises that is the way ahead. He is not saying that it is wrong. He knew the evil and decided to embrace it wholly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago* But the quote itself admits that the consumers here are the advertisers, it is natural that the users have little say. The users are being milked/harvested/herded/served to the consumers permalink fedilink source parent