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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years 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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from the company that now completely ignores all the search syntax they trained us on – when -, +, "..." actually meant something
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  Are you kidding me? What the fuck

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