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In 1998, two Stanford students published "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," in which they wrote, "Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers."

research.google/pubs/pub334/ 1/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/pas… 2/

The co-authors were Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin, and the "large-scale hypertextual web search-engine" they were describing was their new project, which they called "#Google." They were 100% correct - prescient, even! 3/

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Sophia Ross William Parsons / wolf_ _rayet

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random tangent there are so many ghost kitchen stuff on skip and door dash.

if the food the offered on average was as good as the restaurants they supposedly represented it wouldn't be so bad, but i have been given no reason to trust their quality

the amount of them that just pretend they aren't a ghost kitchen but offer the same stuff is a stounding.

and the amount that do just all offer the same things even when its "cheese cake factory by ghost kitchen" it would be fine.

but then they also offer Cinnabon things at that same ghost kitchen.

even if it was just an illusion I'd prefer they set those up separately and only contain the relevant offers, other wise it feels scummy.

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