• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    I often typed “hipster coffee shop” into the search bar as a shorthand because Yelp’s search algorithm always knew exactly what I meant by the phrase. It was the kind of cafe that someone like me – a western, twentysomething (at the time), internet-brained millennial acutely conscious of their own taste – would want to go to.

    Yeah. The “algorithm” is to blame.

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      9 months ago

      Dang, I was interested in the interface article but it reads like a high school essay.

      The best reason, personally is because we collectively evolved our perception of good design as being informative, friendly and hospitable.

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    10 months ago

    It’s just trends/fashion, I don’t get why algorithms are to blame? I read the whole long ass article but I don’t really find a compelling argument. It’s just how trends work. The algorithms of now speed it up, but it’s no different from anything in this connected day and age; I used to only hear of new PC announcements in a month (when the next issue of PC Magazine hit my mail box), now I can get it within the minute of announcement.