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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.
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    who do you think is using literally anything else other than tech people?

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      You’re exactly right. Given the circles we run in it’s easy to forget the rest of the world just doesn’t give a shit about any of this.

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        Obligatory relevant XKCD

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      No way any of my friends would pay 10 bucks a month for kagi, so yeah most people just don’t care enough or search enough to want to look into alternatives

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      I’m not a tech person, and I’m currently using a SearXNG instance

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      My non techie friends use ecosia or whatever.

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        You don’t have non- techie friends.

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          I do, they use ecosia

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            Non-techie people do not even know what that is, or what you’re talking about.

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              That’s not true tho. All the techies i know dont use ecosia and similar random search engines that they saw in some ad somewhere

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