Whether you’re shopping on Amazon, searching Google, or browsing Facebook, algorithms personalize the experience and point you to content that a machine thinks you want to see. In the sphere of civic ...

Customized results from search engines and social media that are geared to the individual based on that person's past preferences. A filter bubble means two people searching for the same thing receive ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Algorithms have operated behind the scenes of our best-loved social platforms since their earliest days, but their side effects have only ...

If you use the internet, you’ve probably heard of a filter bubble. Internet sites and social media platforms use algorithms that show you content based on your previous interactions, likes, and shares ...

It seems like every day there’s a barrage of headlines telling us about the evils of filter bubbles. This month was no different, with DuckDuckGo publishing a study titled “Measuring the ‘Filter ...

How the Filter Bubble Impacts Google, Bing Search & What It Means for SEOs With the continuing evolution of social search, you can never know too much about your audience. SEOs should evaluate whether ...

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When we browse online, we are tracked by a range of companies. Some of this tracking occurs so that site owners understand how users interact with their sites. Other forms of tracking take a closer ...

We know that Republicans and Democrats for the most part don’t play nice with each other on social media, but a new study by Harvard researchers shows that they don’t even like living near each other ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. As the results of Tuesday’s presidential election sunk in across the ...

In 2011, with Facebook and Google growing in influence, liberal activist and entrepreneur Eli Pariser wrote a best-selling book that coined a term: The Filter Bubble. Personalized news feeds and ...