In-reply-to » If all of the world gets its queries answered through a single channel, and if the institution that operates that channel ranks information according to the amount of money it has been paid, rather than any sense of the public interest, and if people tend to read the first results that come up, then people’s entire picture of the world’s information will be economically determined

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah I’m sure it is (hard). The idea mentioned in the article was interesting though, if we would have started out with a search engine more akin to Wikipedia than the commercial Google approach. Granted I don’t think even Wikipedia is always the bastion of freedom and reliability that some like to make out, but a much more ethical approach than the likes of Google for sure.

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