I typed my name into Google and the first website was a Facebook profile of a girl with the same name as me, but not me. The second was the Facebook profile of another girl with half of my name and the third was a website called Linkedin that is used to build a professional profile for yourself for business. I was with my mom when I searched me in Google so I just asked her to look me up as well. Her first result was the same as my first result. The second result she got was the same as my third result which was the Linkedin website. The third person she found just happened to be an actress with my name. I thought that was pretty cool.
Unfortunately, the filter bubble did not do a very good job at finding me, even though I use Facebook on a daily basis and I am obviously logging in as myself. It probably does exist in its own creepy kind of way, but it can only work well to an extent. The information it gave me when I typed in my name was irrelevant really. The first two choices it gave me were similar in being two different people on Facebook, but the third really has nothing to do either. It was just a list of names of people who have created professional profiles of themselves, all having similar names to mine. The websites my mom got were similar to mine but yet still irrelevant.
Personalized search engines have both advantages and disadvantages. It just really depends on what it is someone is searching for and for what purpose. If a persuasive essay were to be written, the filter bubble could persuade whoever is writing it to be biased because it would be more difficult to find the information from the other side of the argument. It the purpose were just because someone was bored, then he or she is more likely to find what he or she wants to see. It’s all a matter of opinion.
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