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From the Ted Talk by Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"
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Open Cloze
So it's not just ______ and ________ either. This is something that's sweeping the Web. There are a whole host of _________ that are doing this kind of personalization. Yahoo News, the biggest news site on the ________, is now personalized — different people get different things. Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the New York Times — all flirting with personalization in various ways. And this moves us very quickly toward a world in which the Internet is _______ us what it thinks we want to see, but not ___________ what we need to see. As Eric Schmidt said, "It will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them."
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- showing
- necessarily
- facebook
- companies
- internet
- google
Original Text
So it's not just Google and Facebook either. This is something that's sweeping the Web. There are a whole host of companies that are doing this kind of personalization. Yahoo News, the biggest news site on the Internet, is now personalized — different people get different things. Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the New York Times — all flirting with personalization in various ways. And this moves us very quickly toward a world in which the Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see. As Eric Schmidt said, "It will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them."
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