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Microincentives and Enshittification

Cory Doctorow · 28 Jul 2023 · pluralistic.net ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Ranking first in a search has become near enough to being true, which is why search and spam are permanently at war.

    Their wordsGoogle’s the first — and often the last — place we go to for answers, so snagging top billing in a Google search results page is, approximately speaking, equivalent to being “true.”
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    A monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has.

    Their wordsThe only way for Google Search to grow is to make itself worse.
    Interesting