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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months 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

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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months 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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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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