Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.

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You don’t have non- techie friends.
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  I do, they use ecosia
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    Non-techie people do not even know what that is, or what you’re talking about.
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      That’s not true tho. All the techies i know dont use ecosia and similar random search engines that they saw in some ad somewhere

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