Does the superior quality of search results from dominant firms like Google stem primarily from better algorithms or from access to larger volumes of user-generated data?

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A newly issued manual foreshadows the coming difficult relations that may arise between companies and 'platform workers' – as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The motto of the digital era might well be “in data there is truth.” The ...