Google is, as Joanne McNeil writes, "the intermediary between my ideas and action forward, the glue between my questions and answers, a placeholder for thoughts and a way to sort my desires." But it's also an advertising, machine-learning, and data-collection regime, with material incentives for addressing it as an advice column rather than an algorithm. […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM on August 12, 2020