Posted on 12/17/2019 9:44:45 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s practically a foregone conclusion that everyone uses Google in one way or another. Now the company’s reach has expanded even further, acquiring Fitbit in December for a whopping $2.1 billion. Google products are in our homes, its software is on our phones, and its search engine answers over three billion queries per day. Even the word “google” itself has become a fixture in the American lexicon. The tech giant has become so ubiquitous, its influence so massive, that it’s safe to say Google’s effect on public discourse is unparalleled in modern society.
Once a mere search engine, the tech company now operates within the fields of computing, mobile phones, artificial intelligence, and a whole host of other industries. Google’s pull over the levers of the U.S. economy is substantial and growing by the day. But this is a dangerous trend that America has witnessed before. We know where this leads, and unfortunately, it’s nowhere good. Google, it seems, is becoming too big to fail.
To their credit, certain conservatives have seen the risks that Google poses for some time now. For years, Tucker Carlson has railed against Google and other big tech companies, arguing that they present perhaps the greatest threat toward American liberty. As Carlson contends, companies like Google function as practical monopolies, continually expanding outward, growing in power until their influence is too significant to ignore. As it turns out, that is precisely what Google is attempting to accomplish -- and it is using the American legal system to help ensure its success.
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Instead I use and recommend DuckDuckgo.com to everyone
If you use DuckDuckGo you are using Google whether you realize it or not.
Google has their hands into nearly everything in technology these days.
The literal incarnation of the Ministry of Truth.
Using Google used to be so much better before they started trying to read my brain. The search results were much more eclectic. Now I only get a few results and they are all basically the same because they think that is what I want. It makes it very hard to do Internet research. They know where I want to go on vacation next though. So there is that.
Yep. And based on my tests, using the data not as well as Google.
“Too Big Too Fail”, means essentially it becomes a government entity.
I’ve always believed that google is the NSA
What about Amazon who is building a billion dollar airfreight hub?
let’s say the Supremes rule against google, or Capital Hill starts mandating things google doesn’t like at some point.
Google could pretty much shut everything down couldn’t they?
It may be too late.
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