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Google is leading a vast, covert human experiment. You may be one of the guinea pigs – The Conversation AU
If this is just one experiment among of tens of thousands, as Google has admitted, in what other ways might users have been manipulated in the past?
On January 13 the Australian Financial Review reported Google had removed some Australian news content from its search results for some local users.
Speaking to the Guardian, a Google spokesperson confirmed the company was running a few experiments that will each reach about 1% of Google Search users in Australia to measure the impacts of news businesses and Google Search on each other.
So what are these experiments? And how concerned should we be about Googles actions?
Engineering our attention
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