If a representation is factually true, can it still be algorithmically unfair?

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Google's job is to portray the World as it is, not a desired fictional version. How would people even be motivated to change the status quo if it's hidden from them?

Google's job is to get people to click on ads, and preserve their position by keeping a big portion of the world's elite tech talent well fed and docile.

Spoken like the CEO of Excite. You know the story? If you don't, I can tell you how it ended: His simplistic ideas about clicking and ads led to the company's demise.

Google is an advertising company.

That's kind of a meaningless statement.

Any search-ad revenue Google gets is a side-effect of users going to Google for good quality search results. Worse results would lead to fewer users, fewer ads sold, less revenue.

The ad money is in fact a major motivation to provide top quality search at all costs.

>Any search-ad revenue Google gets is a side-effect of users going to Google for good quality search results. Worse results would lead to fewer users, fewer ads sold, less revenue.

I did the Noogler training too. What you said might have been true before "google it" became the verb people use for "search".

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