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Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (www.mayrhofer.eu.org)
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[–] 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

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  • [–] 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

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