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In 1998, two Stanford students published "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," in which they wrote, "Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers."
research.google/pubs/pub334/ 1/
research.google/pubs/pub334/ 1/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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The co-authors were Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin, and the "large-scale hypertextual web search-engine" they were describing was their new project, which they called "#Google." They were 100% correct - prescient, even! 3/
NEW 4-nation poll of 6,944 adults from @IpsosUK #KnowledgePanel
In 🏴 public are split over what the impact of independence would be on Scotland’s economy – 43% say better off, 43% worse off
In 🏴🏴 & NI people are more likely to say Scotland’s economy would be worse off (1/4)
In 🏴 public are split over what the impact of independence would be on Scotland’s economy – 43% say better off, 43% worse off
In 🏴🏴 & NI people are more likely to say Scotland’s economy would be worse off (1/4)
Across the 4 nations, people are more likely to feel the economies of England, Wales and NI would be worse off than better off if Scotland was to leave the Union
Scots feel most strongly about this, with 45% saying the rest of the UK would be worse off economically (2/4)
Scots feel most strongly about this, with 45% saying the rest of the UK would be worse off economically (2/4)
On the Union's future, people in England, Wales and NI are more likely to think the UK will still exist in its current form in 5 years' time than that it won't
In Scotland though, more think the current UK won't exist in 5 years' time (49%) than think it will (42%)
(3/4)
In Scotland though, more think the current UK won't exist in 5 years' time (49%) than think it will (42%)
(3/4)
