2023-01-30
“Google Search was based on principles set out in founder Larry Page and Sergey Brin's landmark 1998 paper, ... in which they wrote, “Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers.” 😳😳 https://twitter.com/...
Pluralistic
How TikTok, Amazon, and other platforms go through “enshittification”, helping users before abusing them to help business customers, then abusing those as well
2023-01-29
“Google Search was based on principles set out in founder Larry Page and Sergey Brin's landmark 1998 paper, ... in which they wrote, “Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers.” 😳😳 https://twitter.com/...
Pluralistic
How the “enshittification” cycle, in which platforms first are good to users and business customers before abusing them, has infected TikTok, Amazon, and others
Today's links — Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.