Search engines have long been judges of what is important; now they are also arbiters of the truth.

Danny Hillis, The Opinions Of Search Engines (via Edge.org)

Hillis makes the case that adding by semantic knowledge into search Google and others are inherently and inescapably advancing a worldview, like the editor of a magazine. 

Source: edge.org

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