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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 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

www.wired.com

floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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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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    My non techie friends use ecosia or whatever.

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      You don’t have non- techie friends.

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        I do, they use ecosia

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          Non-techie people do not even know what that is, or what you’re talking about.

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            That’s not true tho. All the techies i know dont use ecosia and similar random search engines that they saw in some ad somewhere

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