Il monopoly of a company on the websites that convey information is not something to be taken lightly. In the digital age, most users rely on multimedia platforms to learn about the world, find news and even work. It appears that the mountain view colossus however stay hindering in some way the natural process of informing people. Perhaps it is an exaggeration to say so, but there question raised by The Guardian sheds light on some misconduct which obviously Google justifies in its own way. Let's see the details.
According to recent research, Google would obstruct information on the platform by blocking some search results: for now in Australia, but will it stop there?
As revealed by the famous newspaper, Google allegedly hid several Australian websites from the search results. A move this, which the media claims to be a 'expression of extraordinary power which, however, should not be expressed, at least not in this way. The Australian government is reportedly trying to enforce a new "behavioral" code to Google and Facebook. This code would require you to negotiate the display of local news and non-local news.
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THEAustralian Financial Review on Wednesday reported is Google has changed its news search algorithm to "bury links to some Australian commercial media for some users". The company did not deny what had happened as expected, indeed it confirmed. However he presented one justification: Google was "performing some experiments that will reach around 1% of users in Australia in order to measure the mutual impact of information activities and Google search"
these experiments, according to the spokesperson, they would end in early February. The giant also tried to downplay it by saying that tens of thousands of experiments were carried out every year.
The proof of the The Guardian
The evidence of the readers of the The Guardian Australia they seemed to confirm that when logged into a Google account, the website was not displayed in search results. On the contrary, it happened with the Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia pages.
In short, a matter that has yet to be fully ascertained but which would put the company in front of a very big problem: deprivation of the freedom to obtain information.
