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Filter Bubbles

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TOC said:
https://www.wimp.com/filterbubbles/

Now, sometimes I miss things, but there is no political bent I saw, no party mention, but it sure fits with what I've been seeing and explains a lot!
Dave
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Interesting. I had no idea that Google will forward different results based on your pattern of prior use. Gads...
 
Amen!

Info is *always* filtered, if you get it from someone else. Woe betide the person who doesn't consider the source, as well as the subject.

(But that applied to radio/tv, newspapers, telegraph ... the traveling troubador of the 13th century, or the Roman annuciator, who told the news to each village.)

Thanks for posting that TED link.

Tom
 
I agree. A very well stated talk. He makes an extremely important point and it is not a biased one. I'm glad to know there are efforts being made in that direction.
 
Well, I'm as suspicious of everything on the internet (as anyone can be)... and one must really use their crap-detector when evaluating information on-line... but I guess I presumed that something like Google had algorithms that were based on the volume of traffic (and some cosmic determinant about the content). I guess I had no idea how different search results could be for the same criteria! VERY unnerving.

I understand there is a way to turn it "off." Can you imagine that turned on in a public library? Don't suppose Google would be able to figure out who its reader was.
 
Boink said:
Can you imagine that turned on in a public library? Don't suppose Google would be able to figure out who its reader was.
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Or, you'd end up with results based upon the...errr...questionable sites visited by the last user of that computer!
 
I pine for the days of Mosaic and Pine, Newsreaders and newsgroups.



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