Re:Google de-emphasizes 'Don't Be Evil' motto in its code of...
by userbinator on Friday May 18, 2018 @08:27PM
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Or more mundanely, wants to "personalise" search results and de-emphasise more obscure (but very valuable to the right people) information.
It used to be that Google would show you lots of very diverse, interesting, and sometimes quite surprising results which would mean learning new things became almost "accidentally" easy. Now it seems more interested in finding things people already (mostly) knew about.
It used to be that Google would show you lots of very diverse, interesting, and sometimes quite surprising results which would mean learning new things became almost "accidentally" easy. Now it seems more interested in finding things people already (mostly) knew about.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16153840