September 16, 2022
"More and more young people are using TikTok’s powerful algorithm... to find information uncannily catered to their tastes."
"That tailoring is coupled with a sense that real people on the app are synthesizing and delivering information, rather than faceless websites.... Doing a search on TikTok is often more interactive than typing in a query on Google. Instead of just slogging through walls of text, Gen Z-ers crowdsource recommendations from TikTok videos to pinpoint what they are looking for, watching video after video to cull the content. Then they verify the veracity of a suggestion based on comments posted in response to the videos.
This mode of searching is rooted in how young people are using TikTok not only to look for products and businesses, but also to ask questions about how to do things and find explanations for what things mean.... Alexandria Kinsey, 24, a communications and social media coordinator in Arlington, Va., uses TikTok for many search queries: recipes to cook, films to watch and nearby happy hours to try. She also turns to it for less typical questions, like looking up interviews with the actor Andrew Garfield and weird conspiracy theories. TikTok’s results 'don’t seem as biased' as Google’s, she said, adding that she often wants 'a different opinion' from what ads and websites optimized for Google say."
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The ChiComs own the entire Biden clan.
We trust the China App more than Google.
Search for Tiananmen Square on Tik Tok.
God help us.
Xi smiles...
Tik Tok uses you.
“How to Serve Man” was a Twilight Zone episode.
ask questions about how to do things.. Like hotwire KIA's ?
Nice of the Communist Chinese, to help corrupt and subvert american youth!
So essentially, we can all just sit back and let our algorithms do everything for us ...
Chairman Xi smiles.
Drago said...
The ChiComs own the entire Biden clan.
I wouldn't say, that they "own" them, They just have video evidence of them;
fucking each other.. brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers
fucking little tiny 9 year old boys and girls
snorting thousands of dollars worth of cocaine (EVERY one of them)
Stating, On Camera, that they will do; WHATEVER their chinese masters require of them
Now that you mention it.. It DOES kinda sound like they "own" them
Google, Tik Tok, Facebook, and many others are all the same. They just serve different masters and do all they can to funnel your brain into different preference-setting and spending buckets.
DuckDuckGo tries to be independent, sort of, but don't trust them either.
Old network TV and Top 40 radio behaviors taught us that people are indeed sheep, so pick your master or accept the default master chosen by your friends and family. Human and cows survive through inertia, as grandma and great-grandma somehow survived by following those around them.
"...to find information uncannily catered to their taste."
"Information censored to stop reality from intruding," you mean.
Google works for me except for average black IQ, which has recently been made unavailable.
I don't understand how IQ is supposed to work, since it's defined as mean 100 and std 15. If you have several different IQ populations, you don't any longer get a normal distribution, and the std of 15 doesn't measure much except how far apart the populations are, rather than variability within a single population. It seems to me you'd have to calibrate it on a white European population to get any sense out of it.
It appears to me that they used to do that and have now taken the US as a single population, which results in a lower former IQ being called 100 and drawing everything towards 100. So black IQ moved from 86 to 92, just as a result.
That's what I wanted to google, but without success.
wants 'a different opinion' from what ads and websites optimized for Google say
So, coming soon: ads and websites customized for tiKtoK.
"Soon" = immediately, if not yesterday.
Over specialized results and research. What can go wrong?
I don't guess it really matter that the Chikes are getting all their personal data. They own nothing, and are happy.
Problem solved: search for all answers on TruthSocialandlegaldefensefund.
"...to find information uncannily catered to their taste."
"Information censored to stop reality from intruding," you mean.
Huh, I hadn't realized one could search on tik tok. I kinda wish you hadn't told me ....
My high school history teacher said, repeatedly, "Communism will not come to the U.S.A. via "the workers". It will be brought in by the Three Piece Suits." 50+ years ago. His name was NOT Nostradamus, but he saw the future.
I already know it won't work for me, because I like long form videos when I watch them at all. Maybe Google will improve YouTube search and suggestions, but I doubt it, since they've spent the last 5 years making a once great platform suck for political reasons.
YouTube is now testing 5 to 10 un-skippable ads before your YouTube even starts.
link to r/facepalm post
Good news for TikTok... until it's their turn to profit.
"Google has noticed."
So has China.
Xi sees you when your sleeping,
Xi knows when your awake.
Xi knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness' sake...
YouTube is now testing 5 to 10 un-skippable ads before your YouTube even starts.
I've noticed that as well.
Why would anyone trust TikTok?
This too shall pass.
It looks like the CCP has built a better mousetrap.
Tik-Tok. The search engine brought to you by the Chinese Communist Party.
No thanks.
On YT's unskippable ads I hit pause, turn off sound, and scroll down until only the timer bar is visible.
I wonder when that option will be removed and my only recourse will be to flip the middle digit?
madAsHell said...
YouTube is now testing 5 to 10 un-skippable ads before your YouTube even starts.
I've noticed that as well.
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I Heart Radio is doing the same.
If you want to catch the beginning of a program, you won't. You'll have to wait until the same ads you've heard a hundred times replay.....at least one ad every time you tell Alexa to go to your station.
The 'net's no better. Every blog wants you to subscribe, and almost all will block you if you don't----or require a login every time you go there, even with a subscription. The Epoch Times is an example. Great site, poorly managed.
re the Good Old Days...
As Steely Dan sang, in a different context: "Those days are gone forever, over a long time ago."
It's because Gen Z can't read. Google sends you links that are essentially text. TikTok shows you videos. When I taught in college ten years ago I had seniors who could not read their textbooks, who had graduated high school and then went on to graduate college. It was not a few of them, it was like 1/3.
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