The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence

Re:The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle fo... by Karunamon on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:18PM (#11257221)

At the risk of sounding flip: Install adblock. If this "purity" is really that important to you, you're about 3 clicks away from banishing the paid advertising and only having organic results show.

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Re:The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle fo... by tunap on Thursday March 10, 2016 @11:47AM (#11260274)

I use AB+ AND NoScript(Google-free whitelist) and my results aren't even organic-ish. I searched for cabling a few weeks back & monoprice.com's first result was on page 12. First 3 or 4 pages were almost exclusively amazon & ebay. That's google's algo, sans adsense.

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Re:The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle fo... by Karunamon on Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:04PM (#11261313)

And those are organic results, not paid ones. The algo has learned that when people search for a product, having results from the most common places up front is more relevant.

Monoprice's google juice just isn't as good.

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