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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by reaperducer on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:48PM (#32827790)
But you don't have a 20-year dossier of almost every web site he's visited; a list of 90% of his credit card purchases; an AI scrutinizing every photo he's ever been in that's been in, or in the background of, on the internet; a list of his previous searches; and a list of the places he's brought his cell phone.

To improve user experience.

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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by Arnt on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:51PM (#32829370)
Google says it spends about 0.3Wh per search, of which roughly one third is for scraping and two thirds for the search. I think you may be overestimating how much processing they could do with that budget (assuming they want to do that significant user-based tweaking, which is IMO not a given).
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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by nomat on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:54PM (#32827893)
Ken Liu's "The Perfect Match" is a sci-fi short story about this topic.

https://gizmodo.com/lightspeed-presents-the-perfect-match-by...

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