Insight on big tech search inclinations

  • Cost/benefit analysis does not favor Google to do personalized news
    • every hard to determine the best news headlines to show you from the 100,000++ available news sources
    • the training data available about you is very sparse
    • the actual increase in conversion rate click through is very low
    • Google does not serve ads for news – against their policy
  • Facebook determines the best content to serve you based on the behavior of your connections
    • the content set that your connections interacted with is smaller
    • the number of your connections are relatively small

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