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Elizabeth Kolbert at The New Yorker writes about the implications that technology monopolies have for culture by asking "Who owns the Internet?". Three decades ago, few used the Internet for much of anything and the web wasn't even around. Today, nearly everybody uses the web, and to a lesser extent, other parts of the Internet for just about everything. However, despite massive growth, the Web has narrowed very much: "Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 23 2017, @06:17PM (1 child)
They are big, but as far as relevance is concerned any small homepage is more relevant to what makes the internet the internet (because these big sites don't actually offer anything on their own). If anything the biggest problem with google's search dominance is that their algorithm is biased and makes it difficult to find anything on it that isn't some nu-web drivel unless you already know what's on the page. It's time for an open search engine.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 23 2017, @06:30PM
http://searchengineland.com/wikimedia-foundation-were-not-building-a-global-crawler-search-engine-242620 [searchengineland.com]
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