Friday, May 24, 2019

Filter Bubbles

Everyone who needs information from the World Wide Web, uses search engines like Google or Yahoo to find the specific information he or she is looking for. These engines help us to filter all the information given by the internet with the help of invisible algorithms. Without them we would sit m whatever hours in trend of the screen and filter the information by ourselves. For example the search of a brownie recipe has an output of over forty billion search results.For this undercoat it is good to have these algorithms but on the other hand it should be possible to select on our own which information gets filtered or not. For instance no(prenominal) of these algorithms will be subject to decide which information is relevant to us. It is comparable to our bookshelves at home. If in that location are only holiday catalogues in it and I am looking for the latest information about travel warnings in Egypt I will not find it, because I am only interested in the destination itself. As I already mentioned unique filter bubbles will be created for my profile as a consequence of these algorithms.Another significant point is that the drug user will not be able to influence which content gets into the bubble or gets blocked by the binary gatekeepers. It assimilatems to me, that the internet shows us what it thinks we want to meet and not what the user really wants to know. I am not totally happy with that fact. I believe that there wont be any chance to change our search behavior and the results if we are not aware of the fact of these filter methods. As far as I can see there are many sites on the internet which use these algorithms like Facebook, Amazon and Google.In the case of Facebook it could mean I wont be able to see the posts of specific friend A because I liked the posts of a friend B first. I have to admit this scares me a bit because I may also want to read what friend A posted. The fact is that all of this so called invention happen in the darkness an d stay there if no one recognizes them and cares about the security on the internet. Summing up it can be said that there are both positive and negative aspects which say for the invisible algorithms.

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