This produces a feeling that FB exerts “more control” over their feed than GOOG. Whether it’s actually “more control” is just semantics.
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Both co’s optimize feed/results for their own profit. But FB profit is more divergent from users’ interests than GOOG profit, AFAICT.https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/923572042049273857 …
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great examples... this sounds like intensive manipulation to me. wonder if there are similar stories about goog
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You know, maybe 280 characters isn't such a bad idea. Kevin got me over here playing charades. "As far as I can tell."
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I’ll plead that “AFAICT” is standard internetese — but yeah, let’s do 280 :)
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FB has been increasing profit by reducing value accrued to the most useful nodes on their platform.
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They are also more incentivized to promote addictive behavior patterns in their users.
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I honestly think Google's "don't be evil" culture makes at least some difference.
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