Comment on When if at all will the social media business model collapse?

• bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  True. But their business model is auctioning ads to the highest bidder when we search for relevant things, they just nailed search when people were still using Yahoo and AltaVista.

  I remember using metacrawler.com a lot before Google came along

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  • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think PageRank was a substantial improvement but - sure. Your premise that the cost of search isn’t endless surveillance is well taken

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    • bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh definitely. It made the internet and information accessable to all.

      Yeah, I’m okay with Google’s business model, unlike Facebook they don’t, as far as I’m aware, sell your data to anyone.

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      • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh don’t mistake me. PageRank is cool tech but fuck Google with a stick, they’re a surveillance monopoly like Apple and Meta

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