{"id":280,"date":"2015-03-24T14:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/?p=280"},"modified":"2023-05-08T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:42:41","slug":"search-engine-filter-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/2015\/03\/24\/search-engine-filter-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine Filter Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TED Talk Lunch was great today \u2013 more on that later\u2026 I want to share something I found related to the last TED Talk we watched.\u00a0 It\u2019s about how deeply search engines, news sites and social network applications promote \/ demote (ie&#8221;filter&#8221;) results for you without you realizing it.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the talk (we had a great discussion after this one):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eli Pariser: Beware online &quot;filter bubbles&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was a bit unsettled after watching this, so I did a bit of, um, Google searching. I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/dontbubble.us\/\">http:\/\/dontbubble.us\/<\/a> &#8211; which in the end will lead you to a search engine called DuckDuckGo (or DDG) that doesn\u2019t track personal information. Still skeptical, I did a bit more (yes, Google) searching and found quite a few proponents of the search engine.<\/p>\n<p>I think I\u2019ll give it a \u201cgo\u201d myself.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/\">https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TED Talk Lunch was great today \u2013 more on that later\u2026 I want to share something I found related to the last TED Talk we watched.\u00a0 It\u2019s about how deeply &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ted-talk-lunches","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/truffolo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}