How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet
www.wired.com
Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.

This is a major revelation from the trial.

The writer is a principal from Duck Duck Go.

Thought folks here might be interested.

  • beckerist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    To summarize, when you search “sneakers” on Google they sneakily replace your search term with Nike. They get paid by Nike by getting a cut of the ad revenue and then can also sell more product increasing their cut.

    This hurts everyone except Google. Advertisers pay more for the click, consumers pay more, Google wins