Google and Facebook secrets.

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This is one of Them. A really interesting topic: how Google and Facebook are biased (unbiased, biased) and how we all live in our own Internet bubble.


This is a very interesting talk. It also have a really easy vocabulary and pronunciation. So just dive in. It sure won´t let you untouched.





- Google personally tailors (confeccionar, sastre) your equiry results.


- This is something that is sweeping the web.


- The Washington Post", "New York Times",...they all are flirting (coquetear, aquí en sentido figurado) with personalization in various ways.


- Whereas this moves uys very quickly towards a world in wich Internet is showing us the things we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.


- What they discover in Netflix was that there is kind of this epic struggle (lucha) going on between our future aspirational selves and our more impulsive present selves.


- The problem is that because of that filtres, instead of a balance information diet, you can end up sorrounded by information junk food. 


(Junk: trastos viejos, basura. Actúa como adjetivo para "junk food": comida basura o junk mail: correo basura o spam).


- In 1915 is not like newspapers where sweating (sudar en sentido figurado) a lot about civic responsabilities.


-...and is not going to do that if it leaves us all isolated (aislados) in a world of one.





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