John Carlos BaezOct 4, 2023

NOTE: I quoted a report from an executive of DuckDuckGo attending the antitrust lawsuit against Google. This article has now been retracted from Wired:

"After careful review of the op-ed, "How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet," and relevant material provided to us following its publication, WIRED editorial leadership has determined that the story does not meet our editorial standards. It has been removed."

I hope we'll learn more about what Google actually does, since September 28, the court established a process allowing the Justice Department to publish more information about this case.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

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Iā€™d suspected something like this for a while, although my assumption was they were just manipulating the results to the point of uselessness rather than deliberately changing what Iā€™d input.

Between these bad-faith manipulations, AI-model content theft and subsequent AI-generated data pollution the era of google as a ā€œsearch engineā€ seems to be coming to a close.

#enshittification

Oct 4, 2023 at 11:41pmWeb