1/ Has anyone done an analysis of the cost-benefits for allowing a google spider over time? Or, better yet, the perception of it? I'm guessing the effect is similar to facebook's video view count inflation.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1220566951308644354 …
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3/ Facebook, twitter, google et al are supposed to be good intermediaries in the sense that they make good information accessible to users. A mArKeTpLaCe fOr IdEaS! Except their business model is more like "good enough" and they approach it asymptotically because: ad revenue.
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4/ Mostly, I'm shocked I somehow forgot to remember that most of the pathological effects of social media have been around since Google. (Before that less so. Like, you can say usenet or something, but the scale and general accessibility matters.)
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