Remember when Katie Couric intentionally edited interview footage to make it look like she stumped a gun club with a question about background checks? And then they released the full audio that they secretly recorded to prove that she did it?
Pepe farm remembers.
Edit: Also I think it's interesting to note that I didn't remember the name of the interviewer or the name of the gun club, and I was unable to find it on google because they've probably memory holed it. However, I went to Duck Duck Go and was able to find it immediately on my first search. I think that's very telling.
Oh yeah. From day one Google's whole deal was manipulating search results for money. Way too many people never understood that that's how the site worked.
I remember being bothered, waaay back in the day when Yahoo was the king of search engines, when all of a sudden every single big broadcast news company, paper, and magazine all at the same time suddenly started using the word "google" as a verb in casual conversation.
It feels normal to most people now to hear the phrase "I googled it". If you're not old enough to remember, you might assume that happened organically, but I watched it roll out in real time. Not a single person I knew spoke like that until AFTER all the media companies started doing it in every broadcast and article. It took about six months of constant work to get it cemented into the public speech patterns. Yahoo didn't know what hit them.
Remember when Katie Couric intentionally edited interview footage to make it look like she stumped a gun club with a question about background checks? And then they released the full audio that they secretly recorded to prove that she did it?
Pepe farm remembers.
Edit: Also I think it's interesting to note that I didn't remember the name of the interviewer or the name of the gun club, and I was unable to find it on google because they've probably memory holed it. However, I went to Duck Duck Go and was able to find it immediately on my first search. I think that's very telling.
Oh yeah. From day one Google's whole deal was manipulating search results for money. Way too many people never understood that that's how the site worked.
I remember being bothered, waaay back in the day when Yahoo was the king of search engines, when all of a sudden every single big broadcast news company, paper, and magazine all at the same time suddenly started using the word "google" as a verb in casual conversation.
It feels normal to most people now to hear the phrase "I googled it". If you're not old enough to remember, you might assume that happened organically, but I watched it roll out in real time. Not a single person I knew spoke like that until AFTER all the media companies started doing it in every broadcast and article. It took about six months of constant work to get it cemented into the public speech patterns. Yahoo didn't know what hit them.
I’ll have to ask Jeeves about that