re: #32 freetoken

I’d suggest you read up on how Google actually operates. It’s part of why they’re successful— they obsessively track how users ‘naturally’ operate in whatever environments they set up. This is the main way that they’ve captured market share. Internet users are notoriously fickle; Netscape was a brief darling but as soon as it ran into usability trouble, people abandoned it. Likewise, Firefox lost a lot to Chrome. The cost of switching is next to nothing, and so the market is incredibly fluid.

As much of the 20th century the advertising agencies exploited discoveries in psychology that they used to control (or if that is too harsh for you, then “strongly influence”) society, so now Google is exploring ideas to influence the flow of information around the world, so that its true clients (those who pay it money, not those who use the search engines) can get the most return for their money

Google doesn’t actually have an interest in their clients getting the most return for their money; they have an interest in their clients giving Google the most money for the least return, if you’re going to be all ultra-capitalist about it. Especially as a monopoly.

I also don’t know what you mean by ‘influence the flow of information’.