oshyMay 11, 2025
You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose
Show threadItamar Turner-TrauringMay 11, 2025
@ocean As predicted by Brin and Page: "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, 1998 - http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html)
The Anatomy of a Search Engine

Show threadKhleedrilMay 11, 2025
@itamarst @ocean That was back when Google pledged, and did, no evil. Since then they've told us they are going to be evil.
Show threadItamar Turner-Trauring
@khleedril @ocean They started adding advertising pretty early on, honestly, I think it's just amusing (and sad) to see the path they went down.
May 11, 2025 at 11:31pmWeb