- Google’s “Preferred Sources” feature, intended to promote quality journalism, actually shifts responsibility for curating reliable sources onto users and regulators. This manual setting is unlikely to be widely adopted, allowing Google to sidestep open web content in favor of its own AI interfaces.
- The move further consolidates Google’s control over search results, potentially leading to an increase in unreliable or low-quality information appearing at the top of search engine listings.
- Google’s user-choice argument serves as a convenient distraction from the fact that it continues to prioritize and reward content that is already aligned with its own interests, rather than promoting diverse and varied open web content.
Originally published at the-decoder.com. Curated by AI Maestro.
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