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The hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling--and limiting--the information we consume. In 2009, Google began customizing its search results. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, this change is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years--the rise of personalization. Though the phenomenon has gone largely undetected until now, personalized filters are sweeping the Web, creating individual universes of information for each of us. Data companies track your personal information to sell to advertisers, from your political leanings to the hiking boots you just browsed on Zappos. In a personalized world, we will increasingly be typed and fed only news that is pleasant, familiar, and confirms our beliefs--and because these filters are invisible, we won't know what is being hidden from us. Our past interests will determine what we are exposed to in the future, leaving less room for the unexpected encounters that spark creativity, innovation, and the democratic exchange of ideas.--From publisher description

Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Invisible Web --- Information organization --- Semantic Web --- World Wide Web --- Internet --- Social aspects --- Subject access --- Censorship --- Invisible Web. --- Information organization. --- Subject access to the World Wide Web --- Subject retrieval on the World Wide Web --- Subject cataloging --- Web search engines --- Semantic integration (Computer systems) --- Semantic networks (Information theory) --- Microformats --- Information storage and retrieval --- Organization of information --- Information science --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Deep Web --- Deepnet --- Hidden Web --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- Social aspects. --- Subject access. --- Censorship. --- Semantic Web - Social aspects --- World Wide Web - Subject access --- Internet - Censorship