Which is why X is important.
This is the problem with monopolies. Should there be a one stop source search engine?
Google can sway any close congressional election with just a simple tweak to page rank in any district. Congress critters know this and act accordingly.
Google needs to go the way of Ma Bell.
Monopoly.
I would like to see China or Russia release a clone of Google circa 2012 or something. Something from before the AI, before the “decision engine” concept.
Back then you could search for something and find it. Today it utterly ignores all your search terms and serves up things with a hard commercial or recent news bias. None of the old tricks like quotation marks etc work.
A pirated one in a country they couldn’t reach would be really cool to hurt google.
Google is becoming the “Big Brother” Orwell only dreamed about.
It is as big a threat as the Deep State.
The Media is becoming less and less relevant as both the left and right do not believe them. The uncensored flow of information on the internet is the most relevant source today.
It is raw, uncensored and full of truth and lies. That is okay as that is what our dying media is today. The most important thing is censorship of the internet which is ongoing today by the left.
When the free flow of ideas, politics, opinion, philosophy, religion, etc. is not compromised we have freedom. If not we have tyranny.
The Media is becoming less and less relevant as both the left and right do not believe them. The uncensored flow of information on the internet is the most relevant source today.
It is raw, uncensored and full of truth and lies. That is okay as that is what our dying media is today. The most important thing is censorship of the internet which is ongoing today by the left.
When the free flow of ideas, politics, opinion, philosophy, religion, etc. is not compromised we have freedom. If not we have tyranny.
Google is not as social agency. They are not here to help the common good. The are a publicly traded company with a primary goal of increasing shareholder value.
There are a lot of places that do search engines. There are a lot of ways to market your company on the internet. People want to use the inexpensive route to make their millions. Marketing a business on the internet is hard work. I had to build my own internet brand from 1999 through 2014. It is how I made my living. It took a couple of hours every day to keep the site running and up to date. Then I spent the rest of my day doing my actual job.
The first amendment applies to government. It doesn’t apply to Google.
Build a better mousetrap.
Excellent! Thank you.
Is it possible what they’re really doing is harvesting information from all sources to block conservative voices/businesses from search results?
I noticed that I am definitely shadow banned from youtube comments.
While lefties can just say whatever they want.
There has been a very obvious shift in commentary allowed since the election.
Google is a private business…I guess they can get away with it.
It has to be very easy with speech tyrant AI programs.
Though Google apologized, it also said that search has permanently changed with AI and thus our traffic may never return. "
This part is interesting, but he certainly missed an opportunity to provide details. Who at Google apologized? What was said?
Then again, whoever told him the old search paradigm is about to implode was absolutely right. You won't be 'searching', you will be 'agenting'.
"Opera has launched Neon, the first agentic AI browser designed to operate autonomously and change how users interact with the internet. It codes, writes, and continues working — even if users go offline."Chat
Opera Neon’s Chat is a built-in AI that helps users search the web, summarize content, and generate text without leaving the browser. It understands page context to deliver relevant answers and supports voice and text input in over 50 languages. This feature also creates images and various files, assisting with both simple and complex writing tasks. Its integration means users get real-time, on-page help without switching apps or tabs.
Do
The Do feature lets users delegate web tasks like filling forms, booking hotels, or shopping directly to the browser’s AI. It processes entire web pages using layout data locally, ensuring privacy by keeping sensitive information on the user’s device.
Unlike cloud-only tools, this local execution allows fast, secure task completion with clear updates. Users can pause or adjust the AI’s actions anytime during the process.
Make
Make enables users to create complex outputs — games, websites, reports — by breaking requests into manageable tasks handled by cloud-based AI agents. These agents work in a virtual machine, continuing projects even offline.
So in the instance of travel, you will ask an 'AIgent': find me a dozen of the best last-minute beach deals for a quick family reunion, but I want this specific location, and if the deal satisfies my needs, pricing and dates, send me the deets on my iPhone. And then you move on and do whatever you were doing while the 'AIgent' goes to work.
Then when you get the travel info, you simply tell the 'AIgent': sign us up, send Zelle due bills for the family 5-way split; and send the deets to my iPhone. Oh and send me a map with the best route and the cheapest gas.
This has been going on for years.
As I posted on 10/29/2024, my basic test for SE bias is to search "Negative effects of homosexual relations (also heterosexual fornication)" - which is because the issue is well-substantiated, and one in which is very likely to see bioas. Even in quotes Google only return one result (now 3), a FR page with that text (to my page named that). Without quotes, it did much better today than before, but which is likely due to my being tracked.
In a past test, Google provided a mixed results, with snippets referring to effects such as depression and suicide due to treatment by others, thus designed to elicit symphony. Of course, Goggle now only allows 10 results per page, but more of same followed.
In this test of Negative+effects+of+homosexual+relations& , Google only provided one result in the first 30 (which is when I stopped looking) which says anything about STD's.
Another example was asking "where does the bible condemn homosexual relations" in quotes which resulted in, "Your search - "where does the bible condemn homosexual relations" - did not match any documents." It is simply hard to believe Google cannot find any document with that question. But if I ask the same question without quotes then what results as the top hits?
The top result, as expected with a biased SE, is one that outright denies that the bible condemn homosexual relations (which it plainly does). Then after a single, sound but brief Billy Graham org page stating the Biblical position, a series of six more liberal sites follow, wikipedia being one, which at best is promoting ambiguity.
Two two contra homosexual sites follow, one with misleading intro, followed by another one promoting ambiguity, and followed by three more liberal sources, one being more egregiously so. Thus only 4 out of 10 top search results actually uphold the Biblical position. 11/28/2024: Google will not even provide more then 16 results (and only 2 pages) for Negative Physical, Psychological, Financial and Spiritual effects of fornication - mainly homosexual but also and heterosexual , and completely ignore my blog page by that title, even though blogger.com is hosted by Google!
And there are no blocks etc. in the robots.txt file or elsewhere. Putting the header of the page, "Negative Physical, Psychological, Financial and Spiritual effects of fornication" in quotes, results in "It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search Try using words that might appear on the page you’re looking for. For example, "cake recipes" instead of "how to make a cake." And (surprise ) to 2 FR pages where that title appears, and one to a AI thread, all by me, by the grace of God.
I use this issue as a test since it is a issue that is not debatable and reveals bias.
Bing is better, but still only provides 10 search results per page, as if that usually suffices, thereby also fostering to superficial understanding at best. DuckDuckGo also provides poor search results, but at least it allows for infinite scrolling.
Google AI says in part regarding this issue:
Reasons why your content might not be indexed, even after being crawled, and how to address them: Low-Quality or Thin Content: Google's algorithms analyze the content and quality of your pages. If your content is deemed thin, duplicate, or doesn't provide enough value to users, Google may choose not to index it.
The Media is becoming less and less relevant as both the left and right do not believe them. The uncensored flow of information on the internet is the most relevant source today.
It is raw, uncensored and full of truth and lies. That is okay as that is what our dying media is today. The most important thing is censorship of the internet which is ongoing today by the left.
When the free flow of ideas, politics, opinion, philosophy, religion, etc. is not compromised we have freedom. If not we have tyranny.
i use brave
they separate the left and right results
two tabs
results from left
results from right
Google will use a few sites to get you an answer say like Wikipedia instead of the whole internet of sites.
Now wiki/google can make sure any question on who is the best president and their answer will be Joe Biden... instead of Donald Trump.
It will be like watching cbs, abc or nbc only.
You will never see the truth.