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Re:Google is not just a platform – It frames, shapes and dis... by mtgx on Sunday December 11, 2016 @04:12PM (#13153260)
The problems start to appear when Google (or Apple, or Microsoft) start showing people the "One True Answer" when asking G. Assistant/Siri/Cortana. Google has also been increasingly emphasizing a "main answer" in its search results.
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Re:Google is not just a platform – It frames, shapes and dis... by wutbrodo on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:24PM (#13154123)
That's why Google has been so incremental about only surfacing "uncontroversial" facts. It's very much not in their best interests to spend all day arguing with half the world about _literally every single issue the human race is interested in_.
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