Posted on 01/17/2021 3:27:45 AM PST by Kaslin
Famously, Google’s motto is “Don’t Be Evil.” Maybe “famously” isn’t the right word. "Hilariously” is more appropriate because Google is, in fact, an evil company. But it’s not just Google. Name the tech giant and they are pretty much working in ways that are detrimental, if not downright destructive, to the United States of America and the freedoms we hold dear. Google not only tracks every keystroke you make, but it also manipulates your worldview without you even knowing it.
The biggest problem with Google is the monopoly control they have over internet searches. They control almost everything people see on the Internet. “Just Google it” has become a common saying – they’re the Q-Tip or Kleenex of getting information. But there’s a very big, very important difference between Google and other products that become “the name” of their brand.
If you use a different cotton swab, it’ll pretty much do the same thing as a Q-Tip. If you blow your nose into another tissue, it’ll work the same way as a Kleenex. If you search in Google, you will get a completely different set of returns than you will if you use any other search engine. Others will show you what you are looking for, but Google will show you what they want you to see.
A couple of weeks ago I was looking for a column I had written back in 2016 called, “How Easy Do We Have To Make It To Vote?” With all the talk for “voter suppression” and other liberal lies, I needed some of the information I wrote about how easy it truly already is to vote in the United States. So I went to Google and typed in the title without putting the search words in quotation marks (an “advanced search”). Simple, right? Not so much.
It didn’t come up. What Google did return was a bunch of left-wing sites and stories about how to vote, how to make it easier to vote, and how Republicans are suppressing the vote somehow. After scrolling through seven pages of results, I went to Bing.com. Searched exactly the same way, and my column was the first result. That made sense, as I was, after all, entering the exact title.
It wasn’t just my column. It’s pretty much the same with everything conservative or insufficiently liberal. Go to Google and type, “Hillary Clinton dissent is patriotic,” without putting it in quotes, and click on the video search option. What you will find are left-wing fluff videos of or about Hillary. What you won’t find is the video of her screeching, “I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration,” in reference to the George W. Bush administration.
Go to Bing.com and it’s the first result in videos. The same goes for every other search engine, like DuckDuckgo.com, just not Google. They don’t want people to get access to that audio.
If you search “Hillary Clinton sick and tired,” Bing will still return the correct video as the first result, DuckDuckGo has it second. Google does not return it at all or at least not in the first 10 pages of results. All you get from Google are videos of Bernie Sanders whiningly declaring in the 2016 primary that he’s “sick and tired of hearing about her damn emails.” Page after page of it. How many returns of the same exact thing could anyone need?
Is this because Google has gotten sloppy? When they started their search engine it was by far the best. You could find what you were looking for, no matter what it was, almost immediately. Now, it’s different.
If you want to know what Huffington Post, Daily Kos, NBC News, or any other left-wing organization has to say on an issue, Google has you covered. If you want information contrary to a liberal narrative, you’re not likely to find it.
One of the most pernicious powers the media had before the Internet was the power to ignore stories or information, deciding what the public needed to know. The Internet took that power away – allowing people to see what they’d left (and hoped would stay) on the cutting-room floor. Google is bringing back that business model, actively working to manipulate the public into a perverted view of the world and, more importantly, a way of thinking they want to impose. There are a lot of words to describe that way of acting, and at the top of the list is evil.
Yep. We have known that a long time.
This is very, very true.
Just yesterday I went looking for a reference I used months ago. Non-political mind you. Inserted exact title, nothing. Went to the website, inserted title in website search box (those are google too) nothing. Actually had to go back to my cataloged index to get the reference to come up.
Google changed their algorithm a few months ago. My website SEO guru pointed it out. It is supposed to enhance user experience and bring up what you are “likely” searching for. Obviously, it doesn’t work very well.
Do I think this is on purpose? Well, it is their algorithm.
Google is ANTI American GARBAGE!!!
If you search my posts or just for the word Google you can see an article I recently posted on how to replace most of the Google tools.
The only thing I like about Google? Google Translate
It is at times amazing. However, I have found instances where it intentionally miss translates sensitive words. That is an important fault. Be very cautious when using it.
Google chrome is suddenly asking for right to change my computer despite the setting of no updates. I am refusing to allow it
The nerve of these bastards.
I always use DuckDuckgo.com, the only time I use google (spelled in lower case on purpose) is for German translations. My native language is German, and although I do speak, read and write English there are some words that I have never heard.
I knew this 15 years ago. Why does it take so long for others figure this simple fact out?
JoMa
All that will happen is that various programs will require those changes to operate; as with smartphones, either updates are accepted or apps stop working.
The tech industry built this into its designs with planned obsolescence; updating versions of Windows or Office will be necessary or such programs as personal online banking (never mind programs required for work itself) simply won’t work.
Google is a fake search engine only returning filtered results they want you to see. Just like the corrupt mainstream media.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Use Brave browser and Duck Duck search.
It became obvious nearly 20 years ago.
What is this google thing of whch you speak? There is nothing in my life i need google for.....once on a business trip years ago i got lost and realized i forgot my gps.....quickly learned how to start up and use the google on my phone. Other than that, my record is quite consistent at being able to exist quite nicely without google....
Google is “the tree of good and evil’ that we know all too well.
Aree.
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