What Google and Facebook are Hiding -TED

[habraify]

Nothing is stopping you from going to FreeRepublic or Drudge report if you want to see a different side. Not all of us live our lives online through Google. And lets not forget the role of specialized blogs providing contrary voices and opinions that NEVER would have been available before the internet

[tranceplante]

I love smart people!

[nattym79]

I appreciate the personalized service. Isn't that why we go back to the same local restaurant/bar? they know what we want, what we like to talk about etc

[edolen]

it enforces provincialism

[scifiwritir1]

On my giga alert for wind follower, google sent me fifty responses of "Wind Flower" for the search string "Wind Follower" So annoying.

[CleverGamerCloud]

theres a glitch in the internet

[drawingbreathes343]

@gorgo66 no al go did not invent the internet.

[krapptacular]

I did wonder why all i see is only women and weed in my browser. haha Oh how sad.

[VoldythingIsBack]

We all are in The Matrix.

[ferdousalamtaz]

Yes, i dislike FaceBook Timeline.

[gorgo66]

this is all al gore's fault.

not only did he invent the internet, but it's the AlGore-ithms that are filtering everything out for us. damn you, al gore!

[jamesgray78]

@gorgo66 hey-O!

[rockmick10]

what a speech!

[JohnyK07]

mind=blown

Very good point there! Guess I can partially blame the web for making me procrastinate even more than normal. lol

[Papillonsuisje]

 1984- working in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history

[mtoedt]

This is a very questionnable development and we all should keep an eye on it. This in the wrong hands ...

[elijahwald]

The problem with this talk is that it assumes the logic behind these algorithms is to help us find what we want, rather than to make Google and Facebook more attractive to advertisers.

Television programming studies have proved that numbers of watchers may be irrelevant to networks if they are not the watchers desired by advertisers. Google and Facebook are not necessarily tailoring simply on the basis of what we search--they are very likely tailoring on the basis of what and whether we buy.

[MrWalterRaymond]

Skynet is upon us.