Actually, I think the ‘don’t be evil’ injunction is meant to apply to the human employees. I’m sorry to disappoint you but I doubt that its actually written into any of their algorithms ;)
Their algorithms fairly evidently do all kinds of non-nasty things, including separating out ads before presenting them to the user, being fair to different sites—and so on.
Of course, it is Google that does the preference satisfaction, not just some algorithms—though obviously, the algorithms are important.
Actually, I think the ‘don’t be evil’ injunction is meant to apply to the human employees. I’m sorry to disappoint you but I doubt that its actually written into any of their algorithms ;)
Their algorithms fairly evidently do all kinds of non-nasty things, including separating out ads before presenting them to the user, being fair to different sites—and so on.
Of course, it is Google that does the preference satisfaction, not just some algorithms—though obviously, the algorithms are important.