The personalization of the internet leads to hasty decisions. That sentence is the reason this project exists.
These pages treat the result page as what it is: an instrument that shapes belief at scale, operated by organizations with their own reasons.
Topics in this field
Search engine epistemologyTen results that agree are ten results that were selected by the same criteria.Algorithmic biasNeutral procedure applied to unequal material produces unequal output.Filter bubblesThe result confirms the assumption that produced the query.Information qualityFluent and confident are easier to produce than accurate.Epistemic trustTrust is the mechanism.Echo chambersAdding facts to it changes nothing, because the facts arrive through a discredited channel.Distributed epistemologyThe part that is written down is the part that had a reason to be written down.Epistemic injusticeA search result inherits that and turns it into an ordering.