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by mfarid 4621 days ago
I feel Google will get replaced soon. The fact that search is getting more personalised is hurting me more than anything else. We dont get unbiased results. The User experience will definitely die down with this !!!
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Think out of the box: you most certainly WANT personalised result. What you don't want is biased news
imagine a republican seeing more republican friendly results and a democrat seeing democratic results. Now, this would make Google really look unreliable at some point of time !
Yes, I've seen (as many others did) the filter bubble video, but I'll propose a counter argument: imagine looking for "python" and having results referring both to wildlife and programming languages.

The questions that I asked myself after watching the video are:

What is the expected result?

Are there any logical fallacies that I need to consider?

What are the flaws associated to a point of view?

What are the flaws associated to the other point of view?

Why are they flaws?

What can be done to fix them?

If some things cannot be done, is there any workaround?

see duckduckgo and bubble