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paper - title: Carbon Consumption Patterns of Emerging Middle Class - year: 2020 - authors: Never et al.

summary - This is an important paper that shows the pathological and powerful impact of the consumer story to produce a continuous stream of consumers demanding a high carbon lifestyle - By defining success in terms of having more stuff and more luxurious stuff, it sets the class transition up for higher carbon consumption - The story is socially conditioned into every class, ensuring a constant stream of high carbon emitters. - It provides the motivation to - escape poverty into the lower middle class - escape the lower middle class into the middle class - escape the middle class into the middle-upper class - escape the middle-upper class into the upper class - With each transition, average carbon emissions rise - Unless we change this fundamental story that measures success by higher and higher levels of material consumption, along with their respectively higher carbon footprint, we will not be able to stay within planetary boundaries in any adequate measure - The famous Oxfam graphs that show that - 10% of the wealthiest citizens are responsible for 50% of all emissions - 1% of the wealthiest citizens are responsible for 16% of all emissions, equivalent to the bottom 66% of emissions - but it does not point out that the consumer story will continue to create this stratification distribution

from - search - google - research which classes aspire to a high carbon lifestyle? - https://www.google.com/search?q=research+which+classes+aspire+to+a+high+carbon+lifestyle%3F&oq=&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgGECMYJxjqAjIJCAAQIxgnGOoCMgkIARAjGCcY6gIyCQgCECMYJxjqAjIJCAMQIxgnGOoCMgkIBBAjGCcY6gIyCQgFECMYJxjqAjIJCAYQIxgnGOoCMgkIBxAjGCcY6gLSAQk4OTE5ajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 - search results returned of salience - Carbon Consumption Patterns of Emerging Middle Classes- This discussion paper aims to help close this research gap by shedding light on the lifestyle choices of the emerging middle classes in three middle-income ... - https://www.idos-research.de/uploads/media/DP_13.2020.pdf

for - autopoiesis - rhetoric - negentropic

from - https://hyp.is/uc2TdgZAEe-g9ldRm11tQA/www.google.com/search?q=applying+nagarjuna+to+penetrate+the+circularity+of+language&sca_esv=f3a10901b51afbdb&sxsrf=ACQVn09m0Xq0UJifhB2MGXO1HNWdkYPGjA:1714198161525&ei=kZYsZsTQH_GVxc8P7O2K2AM&udm=&oq=applying+nagarjuna+to+penetrate+the+circularity+of+language&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIjthcHBseWluZyBuYWdhcmp1bmEgdG8gcGVuZXRyYXRlIHRoZSBjaXJjdWxhcml0eSBvZiBsYW5ndWFnZTIIECEYoAEYwwRIvaEDUKhuWMmTA3ADeACQAQCYAfIDoAGSTaoBCDItMS4yMS42uAEDyAEA-AEBmAIMoAKuHMICChAAGLADGNYEGEfCAgQQHhgKwgIKECEYoAEYwwQYCpgDAIgGAZAGBJIHBzMuMy01LjSgB-Uz&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp

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search - Google - applying Nagarjuna to penetrate the circularity of language - https://www.google.com/search?q=applying+nagarjuna+to+penetrate+the+circularity+of+language&sca_esv=f3a10901b51afbdb&sxsrf=ACQVn09m0Xq0UJifhB2MGXO1HNWdkYPGjA%3A1714198161525&ei=kZYsZsTQH_GVxc8P7O2K2AM&udm=&oq=applying+nagarjuna+to+penetrate+the+circularity+of+language&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIjthcHBseWluZyBuYWdhcmp1bmEgdG8gcGVuZXRyYXRlIHRoZSBjaXJjdWxhcml0eSBvZiBsYW5ndWFnZTIIECEYoAEYwwRIvaEDUKhuWMmTA3ADeACQAQCYAfIDoAGSTaoBCDItMS4yMS42uAEDyAEA-AEBmAIMoAKuHMICChAAGLADGNYEGEfCAgQQHhgKwgIKECEYoAEYwwQYCpgDAIgGAZAGBJIHBzMuMy01LjSgB-Uz&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#ip=1

search results returned of interest - Larval Subjects . https://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com › 2012/03/21 › aut... 21 Mar 2012 — ... applying the principles of autopoietic ... Language is only ever a response to language. ... Nagarjuna, who agrees with him that the college ... - https://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/autopoiesis-and-rhetoric/

search - Google - https://www.google.com/search?q=penetrating+the+circularity+of+language&sca_esv=f3a10901b51afbdb&sxsrf=ACQVn09m0Xq0UJifhB2MGXO1HNWdkYPGjA%3A1714198161525&ei=kZYsZsTQH_GVxc8P7O2K2AM&oq=penetrating+the+circularity+of+language&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIidwZW5ldHJhdGluZyB0aGUgY2lyY3VsYXJpdHkgb2YgbGFuZ3VhZ2UyBBAjGCdI1DBQryFY6iRwAXgBkAEAmAGIA6AB1AqqAQMzLTS4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgKgAuMCwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR5gDAIgGAZAGBJIHBTEuMy0xoAfkCw&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp search results returned - Very few salient results returned, - indicating little research in this field - try this:

search - Google - Nagarjuna penetrating the circularity of language - https://www.google.com/search?q=nagarjuna+penetrating+the+circularity+of+language&sca_esv=f3a10901b51afbdb&sxsrf=ACQVn082tuUJX8gz-CjpZ6AF3wXPxbGK6Q%3A1714197263134&ei=D5MsZvLhB56Jxc8Ph-CH0A0&oq=nagarjuna+penetrating+the+circularity+of+language&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIjFuYWdhcmp1bmEgcGVuZXRyYXRpbmcgdGhlIGNpcmN1bGFyaXR5IG9mIGxhbmd1YWdlSPPEDFCx_gtY0akMcAN4AZABAJgBqwSgAbQgqgEHMy01LjMuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCCqACpxfCAgoQABiwAxjWBBhHwgIHECMYsAIYJ8ICCBAAGIAEGKIEwgIEEB4YCpgDAIgGAZAGBJIHBzMuMy00LjOgB9Ab&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#ip=1

search results returned of interest - › logic...PDF Logic and Philosophy of Language Language and languages—Philosophy. 4 ... pupil Alexander had, after all, penetrated to India in the course ... Nagarjuna's system . Philosophy East and West, vi ... - https://dokumen.pub/download/logic-and-philosophy-of-language-2nbsped-0815336101-0815336098-081533608x-081533611x-0815336128-9781136773440-1136773444.html - › Lang... Saying what Cannot Be Said With Western and Confucian Ritual ... This dissertation addresses one of the classical philosophical and theological problems of religious language, namely, how to speak meaningfully about ... - https://www.academia.edu/41159976/Language_as_Ritual_Saying_what_Cannot_Be_Said_With_Western_and_Confucian_Ritual_Theories - https://www.academia.edu/41159976/Language_as_Ritual_Saying_what_Cannot_Be_Said_With_Western_and_Confucian_Ritual_Theories - collectionscanada.gc.ca https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca › ...PDF A Comparative Study of Nagarjuna and Derrida - https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/002/MR46971.PDF - Monoskop https://monoskop.org › Var...PDF Varela_Thompson_Rosch_The_... recurrent patterns (in Piaget's language, "circular reactions") of sen- sorimotor activity. Piaget, however, as a theorist, never seems to have doubted the - https://monoskop.org/images/2/21/Varela_Thompson_Rosch_The_Embodied_Mind_Cognitive_Science_and_Human_Experience_1991.pdf -

for - search - Google - penetrating the essence of language - https://www.google.com/search?q=penetrating+the+essence+of+language&oq=penetrating+the+essence+of+language&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigAdIBCTk1ODVqMGoxNqgCAbACAQ&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#sbfbu=1&pi=penetrating%20the%20essence%20of%20language

Source - Reading Ernest Becker - The birth and death of meaning - listening to David Loy - https://youtu.be/UGEbXdFWfPA?si=ksPZePFzTrfS_gq. <br /> - https://youtu.be/ajwH-5YhxBc?si=y-Z9CFn09PvMfdUA - need to find someone for Deep Humanity work - Common human denominator of language

results returned of interest

• jstor https://www.jstor.org › stable Quest for the Essence of Language Roman Jakobson presented a communication en- titled Quest for the Essence of Language. The discussion of this question was introduced by recalling the work of ...
  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3822852
• De Gruyter https://www.degruyter.com › html Language and the mind: how language shapes our thinking by X Zhou · 2023 · Cited by 1 — Abstract. This paper analyzes languages and their connections to thinking and culture using an autoethnographic lens.
  • https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jwl-2023-0018/html?lang=en
• U.S. Department of Education (.gov) https://files.eric.ed.gov › ful...PDF Language as a Field of Energy: A Critical Question for Language Pedagogy by AO Soter · 2017 · Cited by 5 — This essay offers a reorientation of our views on the interrelationships of language and thought as a field of constantly
  • https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1129433.pdf
• University of Pretoria https://repository.up.ac.za › ...PDF CHAPTER 3: HEIDEGGER'S CONCEPT OF TRUTH Heidegger's interpretation is meant to show that regardless of the important statements about language we find made in the realm of thought, in spite of the.
  • https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/30416/03chapter3.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y
• U.S. Department of Education (.gov) https://files.eric.ed.gov › ful...PDF Linguistics; Verbal Communication A survey of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ...

by FH Lapointe · 1973 · Cited by 5 — child. Language is revelatory of being and existence. If we would grasp fully the meaning of language we must - https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED085799.pdf - Merleau-ponty's conceptions stand in opposition ts, Saussure's linguistic postulations and Korzybski's scientism. That is, if language is studied phenomenologically, the acts of speech and gesture take on greater importance than language as currently viewed in structural linguistics and general semantics. - Universidad de Granada https://www.ugr.es › Langu...PDF Language and Mind, Third Edition language to language. ... guages – that defines the “essence” of human language. ... rationalist view that Peirce outlined, we must penetrate the mysteries of - https://www.ugr.es/~fmanjon/Language%20and%20Mind.pdf - University of Pennsylvania - School of Arts & Sciences https://www.sas.upenn.edu › ...PDF 32 Relations Between Language and Thought by L Gleitman · Cited by 91 — If so, the suggestion is that labeling practice is penetrating to the level of nonlinguistic cognition. Roberson and colleagues adopt this - https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~gleitman/papers/Gleitman%20&%20Papafragou%202013_Relations%20between%20language%20and%20thought.pdf - Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu › The_I... (PDF) The Instruction of Imagination: Language as a Social ... While all other systems of communication in the biological world target the interlocutors' senses, language allows speakers to systematically instruct their - https://www.academia.edu/35571744/The_Instruction_of_Imagination_Language_as_a_Social_Communication_Technology - PhilArchive https://philarchive.org › MU...PDF The Essence of Language: Wittgenstein's Builders and Bühler's ... by K Mulligan · 1997 · Cited by 45 — I compare what Wittgenstein says about language and reference at the beginning of his Philosophical Investigations with some - https://philarchive.org/archive/MULTEO-3

https://web.archive.org/web/20240429070339/https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

A ranty post about what happened at Google search ca. 2019 and eroded its quality.

author mentions this as the locking in of rotting google search.

The start of Google search decreasing effectiveness

Tinfoil hat theory: This is the stage Google Search is at in April 2024. Not looking good bruv.

from -search - Google - https://www.google.com/search?q=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&oq=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjQ1OTU2ajBqMTaoAgGwAgE&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#sbfbu=1&pi=Heidegger%20existential%20isolation%20Milarepa%20alone%20but%20not%20lonely

to - Nic Higham - https://hyp.is/trokCgCNEe-QGA_EuaiIPg/nisargayoga.org/

backlink -search - Google - https://www.google.com/search?q=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&oq=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjQ1OTU2ajBqMTaoAgGwAgE&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#sbfbu=1&pi=Heidegger%20existential%20isolation%20Milarepa%20alone%20but%20not%20lonely

for - search term - Google

Search term - Google - Heidegger existential isolation Milarepa alone but not lonely - Google return results - https://www.google.com/search?q=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&oq=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjQ1OTU2ajBqMTaoAgGwAgE&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#sbfbu=1&pi=Heidegger%20existential%20isolation%20Milarepa%20alone%20but%20not%20lonely - websites visited from returned result -https://scienceandnonduality.com/article/embracing-existential-loneliness-and-waking-up-to-non-dual-aloneness/

source - my wife's WU post on isolation during COVID

reply to u/Lauchpferd at https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1c6ydzp/how_much_googleable_information_do_you_have_in/

This is the wrong question to be asking. If it were useful, then Google has everything already, so why bother? Let them do all the work for you.

Most note taking methods were evolved to not only aid in sensemaking, but to help people with the exponentially growing "information overload" problem. Sure you can Google many things, but doing so usually provides "facts" and rarely ever actual insight. Thus: discover, collect, index, link, build.

If you had to search every time to use a thing, you'd lose out most of your effort to the scourge of time when you've probably seen it before and could find it internally among your own collection of millions of things (with greater accuracy as well as reliability of the information you've previously vetted) versus Google's quadrillions of things which would all need to be vetted for relevancy, accuracy, and then placement among the thread of ideas you were attempting to potentially build toward. And once you've found it to place where you need it to make an argument or complete an argument, where will you put it? in your notes? And now you've come full circle.

Save yourself the time and only do the job once.

No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them. —Umberto Eco

Kaiser's argument for why building a personal index of notes is more valuable than relying on the indexes of others.

Note that this is answer still stands firmly even after the advent of both the Mundaneum, Google, and other digital search methods (not to mention his statement about ignoring advertising, which obviously had irksome aspects even in 1911.) Our needs and desires are idiosyncratic, so our personal indexes are going to be imminently more valuable to us over time because of these idiosyncrasies. Sure, you could just Google it, but Google answers stand alone and don't build you toward insight without the added work of creating your own index.

Some of this is bound up in the idea that your own personal notes are far more valuable than the notes someone else may have taken and passed along to you.

Do a quick history search on this town. Why was Brownsville the exception to not being governed by Mexicans?

for - dream research

Summary - This presents a new theory of dreams that challenge Freud and Jung's interpretation of dreams. - It is intriguing, as it posits that the dream state is the default state of the brain. - it makes more sense to me.

source - google search - does dreaming allow cognitive during waking state to be possible?

• https://dreams.ucsc.edu/Library/domhoff_2010a.html

Wow, it represented a 340 million USD bonus to switch from Yahoo to Google?

• for: Google search - dustcrete

• salient search results

  • https://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-living/green-homes/building-a-sawdust-concrete-home-zmaz78jfzgoe/
    • provides exact mixture of sawdust concrete mix that has stood the test of time
  • https://www.matec-conferences.org/articles/matecconf/pdf/2019/07/matecconf_scescm2019_01015.pdf
  • https://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/good_wood/sawment.htm
  • https://permies.com/t/128390/Wood-frame-sawdust-concrete-wofati

• next suggests search term

  • after reading MotherEarth article, search
    • sawdust concrete mix https://www.google.com/search?q=sawdust+and+concrete+mix%C2%A0&sca_esv=567951771&rlz=1C9BKJA_enZA881ZA881&hl=en-GB&sxsrf=AM9HkKk4FOVvC-tmNV-cfomdoa4nNgKvBg%3A1695541358540&ei=bugPZci2IJr-7_UPk5urwAw&oq=sawdust+and+concrete+mix%C2%A0&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIhpzYXdkdXN0IGFuZCBjb25jcmV0ZSBtaXjCoDIEECMYJzIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIIEAAYigUYhgMyCBAAGIoFGIYDMggQABiKBRiGAzIIEAAYigUYhgNI1CdQihFY7CFwAHgAkAEBmAGzA6ABmSOqAQgyLTIuMTAuMbgBA8gBAPgBAcICCxAAGIkFGKIEGLADwgIIEAAYogQYsAPCAgcQIRigARgK4gMEGAEgQYgGAZAGBA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#sbfbu=1&pi=sawdust%20and%20concrete%20mix%C2%A0

• salient search results

  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352710221010950
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/1094/1/012047
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42452-023-05361-4

• next suggested search term

  • sawdust, diatomaceous earth and concrete mix
    • https://www.google.com/search?q=sawdust%2C+diatomaceous+earth+and+concrete+mix&sca_esv=567951771&rlz=1C9BKJA_enZA881ZA881&hl=en-GB&sxsrf=AM9HkKmDfU6vmkxzMcQ7lW0wXgkCLDRprw%3A1695546444454&ei=TPwPZZOfG46O9u8Pj8ef8Ak&oq=sawdust%2C+diatomaceous+earth+and+concrete+mix&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIixzYXdkdXN0LCBkaWF0b21hY2VvdXMgZWFydGggYW5kIGNvbmNyZXRlIG1peCoCCAAyBxAjGLADGCcyChAAGEcY1gQYsAMyChAAGEcY1gQYsAMyChAAGEcY1gQYsANImdUBUABYAHAEeACQAQCYAdcDoAHXA6oBAzQtMbgBAcgBAOIDBBgAIEGIBgGQBgQ&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp
• salient search results
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/1087/1/012001/pdf
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950061821000842
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9605626/

https://highlightpoetry.com/

• for: quote, quote - Robert Epstein, quote - search engine bias,quote - future of democracy, quote - tilting elections, quote - progress trap, progress trap, cultural evolution, technology - futures, futures - technology, progress trap, indyweb - support, future - education
• quote
  • The big tech companies, left to their own devices , have already had a net negative effect on societies worldwide.
  • At the moment, the three big threats these companies pose
    • aggressive surveillance,
    • arbitrary suppression of content,
      • the censorship problem, and
    • the subtle manipulation of
      • thoughts,
      • behaviors,
      • votes,
      • purchases,
      • attitudes and
      • beliefs
    • are unchecked worldwide
• author: Robert Epstein
  • senior research psychologist at American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology
• paraphrase
  • Epstein's organization is building two technologies that assist in combating these problems:
    • passively monitor what big tech companies are showing people online,
    • smart algorithms that will ultimately be able to identify online manipulations in realtime:
      • biased search results,
      • biased search suggestions,
      • biased newsfeeds,
      • platform-generated targeted messages,
      • platform-engineered virality,
      • shadow-banning,
      • email suppression, etc.
  • Tech evolves too quickly to be managed by laws and regulations,
    • but monitoring systems are tech, and they can and will be used to curtail the destructive and dangerous powers of companies like Google and Facebook on an ongoing basis.
• reference
  • seminar paper on monitoring systems, ‘Taming Big Tech -: https://is.gd/K4caTW.

• for: search engine bias, google privacy, orwellian, privacy protection, mind control, google bias
• title: Taming Big Tech: The Case for Monitoring
• date: May 14th 2018

• author: Robert Epstein

• quote

• paraphrase:
  • types of search engine bias
    • the Search Suggestion Effect (SSE),
    • the Answer Bot Effect (ABE),
    • the Targeted Messaging Effect (TME), and
    • the Opinion Matching Effect (OME), among others. -
  • Effects like these might now be impacting the
    • opinions,
    • beliefs,
    • attitudes,
    • decisions,
    • purchases and
    • voting preferences
  • of more than two billion people every day.

google search for "Ronald Wright surviving progress"

ChatGPT's synthesis of information versus Google Search's list of links

The key difference here, though, is that with a list of links, one can follow the links and evaluate the sources. With a ChatGPT response, there are no citations to the sources—just an amalgamation of statements that may or may not be true.

15% of daily searches are unique

Or, put another way 85% of searches are something that Google has seen before. There is no citation for this, and I think it is more complex than this because Google uses signals other than the keyed search to rank results. Still, an interesting tid-bit if the source could be tracked down.

I wonder how much Captcha technology may have helped to remedy this in the intervening years?

Broad recycle of Tim Bray's article https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/01/15/Google-is-losing-its-memory with an example of the same effect for their site.

DuckDuckGo has a better index that doesn't prioritize for "right now" or currency.

I think I've read this bit about Google forgetting from Tim Bray(?) before. Would be useful to have additional back up for it.

Not being able to rely on Google means that one's on personal repositories of data in their commonplace book becomes far more valuable in the search proposition. This means that Google search is more of a discovery mechanism rather than having the value of the sort of personalized search people may be looking for.

Search on documents returning something in the neighborhood of 500 words or so seems to be the right amount of information. One wants a few paragraphs related to an idea and not an entire book which takes longer to scan.

Google search does this type of search and it's also what Google Books attempts to do as well when searching specifically there.

Google

Really free? Or was this served against ads in search?

Bavadekar, Shailesh, Andrew Dai, John Davis, Damien Desfontaines, Ilya Eckstein, Katie Everett, Alex Fabrikant, et al. ‘Google COVID-19 Search Trends Symptoms Dataset: Anonymization Process Description (Version 1.0)’. ArXiv:2009.01265 [Cs], 2 September 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01265.

Beytía, P., & Infante, C. C. (2020). Digital Pathways, Pandemic Trajectories. Using Google Trends to Track Social Responses to COVID-19 [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/yndb7

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Goldman, D. S. (2020). Initial Observations of Psychological and Behavioral Effects of COVID-19 in the United States, Using Google Trends Data. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jecqp

Bento, A. I., Nguyen, T., Wing, C., Lozano-Rojas, F., Ahn, Y.-Y., & Simon, K. (2020). Evidence from internet search data shows information-seeking responses to news of local COVID-19 cases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 202005335. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005335117

Stephens-Davidowitz, S. (2020, April 5). Opinion | Google Searches Can Help Us Find Emerging Covid-19 Outbreaks. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/opinion/coronavirus-google-searches.html

Du, H., Yang, J., King, R. B., Yang, L., & Chi, P. (2020). COVID-19 Increases Online Emotional and Health-Related Searches [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5gskw

Very good advice.

Google has accelerated this by using search to better link pieces of knowledge in the modern world, but scholars have been linking thoughts manually for centuries.

A good resource to keep in mind for future lessons:) Found this website using a custom google search engine

This is a good point- typically teachers either give students a list of links or let them use google free reign. Creating a custom google search engine for the class may help

This is a great instance for Google's box that simply provides the factual answer instead of requiring a click through.

we’re at a pivotal point not just in the life of our democracy, but in how we think, read, and make choices. Selective information is being presented to us in a way that encourages selective reading and offers psychological and social rewards for, to put it bluntly, being stupid and submissive and spreading stupid to submit others.

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What’s different now is that this propaganda is being gamed by professionals in a massive, orchestrated data campaign at a volume, pace, and consistency that not only muddies the truth, but completely eclipses the truth. Destroys the very notion of truth.

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The truth about the truth is that we believe because we want to, because our ability to think independently is a point of pride for Americans. The people behind the curtain are telling us the same story we tell ourselves about ourselves. But this is also a vulnerability: Independence is in its purist form a kind of division. If you exploit it the right way, you can turn a democracy against itself.

"Don't be evil."<br> "Do the right thing."<br> Riiiiiiiiight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil

If you flip the words around to "jews are..." you don't get predictive searches. Why? I guess it doesn't think of the words as a question. Check out the related searches at the bottom of my page with this query.

How in the world can these results be so skewed? Is there an active community of antisemitic folks actually looking for self-justification or is this a gaming of the search system?