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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet - WIRED (www.wired.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@beehaw.org
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cross-posted from !google@lemdro.id

  • Google may be altering billions of search queries daily to generate results that increase purchases.
  • Testimony in an antitrust case revealed an internal Google slide about changes to its search algorithm, involving "semantic matching" to generate more commercial results.
  • Google covertly changes user queries, substituting them with ones that generate more revenue for the company and display shopping-oriented results.
  • This manipulation benefits Google's profits but harms search quality and raises advertiser costs.
  • Despite legal challenges, Google's market dominance allows it to continue these practices, impacting users' ability to access unbiased information.
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[–] Unsustainable@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do people still use Google search? Maybe I don't get out much, but idk anyone that uses Google search.

[–] eumesmo@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do people still use Google search?

Google literally has more than 90% ofthre global marketshare https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

[–] Unsustainable@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

That site won't open. How are they measuring the usage, since the privacy conscious search engines don't track people?

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do folks in your circle use? I'm the only person I know IRL who sometimes doesn't use Google.

[–] Unsustainable@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

I mainly use Searx, MetaGer, and DDG. Most of the people I know are not fans of Google. I'm a little more privacy conscious than most of my friends, though. Most of them have FB and IG accounts. I don't post anything on social media unless it's as anonymous as it can be.