Mon, 05 Jan 2004

The Politics of Google

There's an interesting piece over at Moore's Lore this morning entitled Google Scandals.

The first part refers to some technical screw ups on Google's part vis-a-vis their new Blogger product. It's the other "scandal" that's interesting: it discusses how Google's decision to cut blogs out of their news section (or more accurately, cut sites that use blogging software) has skewed the result of a news search ideologically.

The idea that technical implementations can mangle (ideally) a "value judgement free" search engine is fascinating. It should remind us all to be careful not only of what we look for, but how we look for it.

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