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Brin and Page pretty much say it's inevitable that a commerical search engine will succumb to "evil". The only solution they present is an academic/non-profit run search engine.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html (scroll down to "Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives")



The owners of a commercial search engine say that it's inevitable that a commercial search engine will succumb to evil.

Hmmm.


Not to put too fine a point on it, they once said that - the linked paper from Brin and Page was published in 1998, when they were still students.


Notably, though, just a few months before they launched as a commercial operation.



Sorry for the offtopic, but Im interested in natural Language constructs like this way of using Hmmm. after a sentence. First I thought it was something from the Portuguese speakers, after more thinking I see maybe it is common of French speakers. Or maybe is common in the U.S. too, I have been there only few times. I found it very funny, and somewhat familiar. :ps: The wonders of having a search engine at anyone's hand.


I think the linguistic term is "interjection". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interjection





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