A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates.

The leaked documents touch on topics like what kind of data Google collects and uses, which sites Google elevates for sensitive topics like elections, how Google handles small websites, and more. Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives, according to Fishkin and King.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives

    I would have never guessed that.

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      5 months ago

      At this point if you are not assuming that corporation is pretty much lying for convenience. you aint operating in reality haha

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      5 months ago

      Crazy how self regulation always winds up like this. By crazy I mean predictable of course.

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          5 months ago

          Listen, the problem is too many regulations prevented the Invisible Hand from manifesting. If we remove even more regulations the free market will work this time, I swear.

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        5 months ago

        You’re supposed to move to a different search engine for the market to work. I already have, have you?

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          5 months ago

          This approach is doomed to fail, so long as the general public isn’t aware of the problem or its scale. Government regulation is the only way.