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Google

tags:: #computing #internet #Information-processing #lec19 projects::

  • "Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of customers"
  • was a web-crawler used to quickly search the entire web
    • competed against human currated lists
      • these where more labour intensive and slower and less accurate often
    • was much better than competition
  • used the idea that important sites will be linked to by other important sites
    • this is a recursive definition
  • used to be anti-advertising
  • used to run on Stanfort computers until they where using the majority of their bandwidth at which point they went corperate
    • imagine if google stayed academic
  • the fact it and browsers where free where due to the belief that getting people using it would eventually lead to profit
  • framed their algorithm as a form of democratic system where links are votes
    • but it is actually a self-repeating circle
    • fringe stuff can never be found
  • pushed the narrative that computers and algorithms are nuetral
    • in reality they are very bias in the ways their creators are