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Google is not just an answer machine, it monitors your responses too

All the data it collects is the real source of Google's dominance

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Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Google logo in this picture illustration | Photo: Reuters

Ed Finn & Andrew Maynard | The Conversation
In 1998, Google began humbly, formally incorporated in a Menlo Park garage, providing search results from a server housed in Lego bricks. It had a straightforward goal: make the poorly indexed World Wide Web accessible to humans. Its success was based on an algorithm that analyzed the linking structure of the internet itself to evaluate what web pages are most reputable and useful. But founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page had a much more ambitious goal: They wanted to organize the world’s information.
Twenty years later, they have built a company going

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