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psychothumbs@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 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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    I’ve switched to DDG because Google results are literal garbage, but I’ll try Bing if it’s actually working.

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      DDG scrapes their results from Bing, so you are effectively already using Bing. I had to stop using DDG because it plugs MSN and other Microsoft websites so hard.

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