Re: [gentoo-user] Re: google

[Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On 11/07/15 05:54, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 10 Jul 2015 22:28:24 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
>>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 5:00 PM, behrouz khosravi <bz.khosravi@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:29 AM, behrouz khosravi <bz.khosravi@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:bz.khosravi@gmail.com>> wrote: Do you folks notice that google
>>> is triying to control the way we live?!
>>>
>>> belive me or not, sometimes I feel I am living in the 1984 novel ?!
>>
>> What? They don’t control the way I live.
>>
>> Alec
> 
> I don't know if they are "trying" to control the way we live, but they can 
> influence it by only making information they deem appropriate accessible in 
> their searches.  The Google ranking algos are de facto the lenses through 
> which many people access a lot of information today (c. 70% global market 
> share on searches).  Google can obfuscate facts and limit our breadth of 
> vision, but in most cases I suspect this is only a reflection of what their 
> users are interested in.
  ^^^^^^

You are not googles users ... YOU are the product they sell

:)

BillK