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And what PageRank does, is it spiders around the Internet instead of
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The Creepy Line

And what PageRank does, is it spidersaround the Internet instead of being a directory...

And what PageRank does, is it spiders
around the Internet instead of being a directory service like Yahoo was

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And what PageRank does, is it spiders around the Internet instead of
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being a directory service like Yahoo was.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:10
Uploaded
Oct 28, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Wandering Foot Productions

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Movie Summary

The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and how they do it.
It’s taking pictures of web pages and analyzing the links between the - The Creepy Line 00:25
It’s taking pictures of web pages and analyzing the links be...
It's pretty simple. All you do is track people’s searches. - The Creepy Line 00:06
It's pretty simple. All you do is track people’s search...
Your search history is very, very informative. - The Creepy Line 00:06
Your search history is very, very informative.
That's gonna tell someone immediately whether you're Republican or Democrat, - The Creepy Line 00:09
That's gonna tell someone immediately whether you'...
It's gonna tell you thousands of things about a person over time, - The Creepy Line 00:08
It's gonna tell you thousands of things about a person ...
Did they go to a porn site? Did they go to a shopping site? - The Creepy Line 00:06
Did they go to a porn site? Did they go to a shopping site?
This information, essentially, are building blocks, - The Creepy Line 00:15
This information, essentially, are building blocks,
Google has more than doubled its profits in the last year - The Creepy Line 00:13
Google has more than doubled its profits in the last year
This was really the first large-scale mechanism for targeted advertising. - The Creepy Line 00:07
This was really the first large-scale mechanism for targeted...
For example, I want to sell umbrellas. - The Creepy Line 00:05
For example, I want to sell umbrellas.
Well, Google could tell you exactly, you know, who is looking for umbrellas - The Creepy Line 00:09
Well, Google could tell you exactly, you know, who is lookin...
So, they could hook up the umbrella makers with people searching for umbrellas. - The Creepy Line 00:06
So, they could hook up the umbrella makers with people searc...
That is where Google gets more than 90% of its revenue. - The Creepy Line 00:06
That is where Google gets more than 90% of its revenue.
If you look at how they structured the company, it was structured so that - The Creepy Line 00:12
If you look at how they structured the company, it was struc...
Anybody else who bought into the company - The Creepy Line 00:07
Anybody else who bought into the company
So, there was this idealism that they said motivated them, - The Creepy Line 00:33
So, there was this idealism that they said motivated them,
They never even gave us a sense of what it meant, - The Creepy Line 00:14
They never even gave us a sense of what it meant,
Even their home page indicates to you that you're not being manipulated - The Creepy Line 00:22
Even their home page indicates to you that you're not b...
And so, everybody in that initial phase of excitement, of course, - The Creepy Line 00:13
And so, everybody in that initial phase of excitement, of co...
It was always kind of a generous thing, “We're gonna give you these great tools, - The Creepy Line 00:19
It was always kind of a generous thing, “We're gonna gi...