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The recent court documents showed that Google's internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations. This apparent immunity to quality concerns stems from the company's dominant market position, which the recent federal court ruling addressed. "Since Google doesn't have any real competition, it can make the best information hard to find, forcing users to stay on Google for longer and interact with more ads," Papadimitriou said. "This is dangerous for consumers, most of whom think the best results appear first." The strategy appears to be working from a business perspective. The study suggests that poor organic search results actually benefit Google's bottom line in two ways: they make paid advertisements more valuable to users seeking accurate information, and they force users to refine their searches multiple times, exposing them to more advertising in the process.

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

A dumpster-style bin with the words "Wes Streeting's House" written on it.

Enjoy this photo from today's #transrights march in London I wasn't going to post pics, but this made me giggle.

Iconicity as an organizing principle of the lexicon | PNAS The view that words are arbitrary is a foundational assumption about language, used to set human languages apart from nonhuman communication. We pr...

Our new study challenges the long-held belief that language is arbitrary; there is no link between how words sound and what they mean. In ASL, many signs visually resemble their meaning. We find that this iconicity plays a key role in how signs are organized in the mind. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

hope it goes well!

thanks 🥰 likewise you too! how are things?

oh thanks that's good to know! importing my twitter blocklists would take forever i fear.... will do some more research once my brain is less mush, thankfully haven't come across much nonsense yet

they use Theft-AI to write essays, we use it to mark them. Either that’s the end of human learning or we collectively speak up, demonstrate skills, actually give a shit about teaching as a form of expertise & uni as more than just a career boost tick box exercise.
I know what I expect to happen

if you’re on here reporting palestinians just know you’re filth and i hate you.

thanks, I think I might manage leaving the flat today finally! sure pls do! I'm hoping I don't need an alt here as well, I spose there are probably just as many terrible people on here as twitter tho...

anyway, having a weird I miss twitter moment 2 years later

I tried Mastodon for a while but so few people I actually knew (myself included) stuck at it, I'm no extroverted enough to make thaaaat many new pals

ok I tried using the sky follower bridge thing from both my old twitter accounts. now time to find out how many of yous are actually posting on here (still) ...

yesss well my immune system is rubbish these days but even for me it's starting to drag...

yes midnight on a saturday night is a great time to set up a new sm account but i'm on day 10 of being in bed with the flu sooo

wow 2nd word posted here is a typo lets goooo

hello wolrd, finally having a look round here