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frumpykvetchbot
Feb 20, 2004

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Pookum posted:

Remember how googles motto is do no evil but now they have a shitload of contracts with the department of defense, work on drone technology for the military, and help the NSA spy on everyone

From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!

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frumpykvetchbot
Feb 20, 2004

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Seriously though the main reason we're so politically fractured now and probably headed for a civil war is because of the tailored search result algorithms and their descendants creating feedback loops that then grew into atomically sealed social media echo chambers.

Google for the first several years returned un-differentiated service so e.g. you could share a search query with someone completely demographically unrelated on the other side of the planet and they'd get the exact same search result (and ads). One day they flipped a switch and google started watching you back. All for your benefit, of course. To serve you results (and ads) relevant to your past queries and other internet activity that they at that point had only in a dim and vague sense started to track.

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Feb 20, 2004

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spouse posted:

Lmao, this guy needs a search engine. :smuggo:

I use a complicated series of geocities webrings to reach the information I need while surfing the world wide web.

how did webrings even work. If you missed a stop, did you have to continue around the horn and wait for it cycle past again? Was there shortcuts to different parts of the circuit like in IKEA showrooms?

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