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.khosr...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:29 AM, behrouz khosravi <bz.khosr...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:bz.khosr...@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
