Yes, but the problem is that 9 out of 10 people use Google as their search engine. And many of these people remain unaware of the ways Google tailors their internet experience.
This is exactly right. I've used DDG for years; it's not perfect but much better than Google, which I refuse to use. I'm a computer consultant and help many people with their computers, and I am painfully aware that most people have no idea other search engines even exist, never mind the fact that the results are tailored and censored.
Although not Google, this seems to be a good opportunity to note that there was in fact election fraud in Fulton County, Georgia, in 2020. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook spent nearly a million dollars having extra ballot (stuffing) collection boxes placed in Fulton County, one of the five most reliably Democratic Counties in the nation.
The Walter Kirn post is the perfect finale for this story. They don’t even try to hide any more; it’s all a blatant show of power. We have been bludgeoned with demonstrations for the last few weeks, from the Biden debate aftermath, to the Kamala coronation, to the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics.
Not too many years ago, the elites went to great lengths to hide their nefarious activities. They used to fear public outrage. No more; now they flagrantly demonstrate their power over us.
Brave is great, sadly Google comes pre installed and most don't even know there are options much less how tailored their google search experience actually is.
I use Brave as my default browser, but have to use Chrome or Firefox for banking and other things. I also try to use DDG for most searches, but in my purchasing agent role I need to use Google for the “shopping” feature for work. DDG doesn’t provide the same, wide ranging results.
With the invulnerable addition of gender and race and the optics of punching up
Over on Rising, Robby Soave was lamenting about the White Dudes for Kamala call, plaintively wondering why the Dems are separating us by race. But from their POV and the POV of their supporters, they're not. They're signaling how good they are by supporting a black woman. Same with White Women for Kamala -- it's about transcending race. If a Republican were to do this, the media would frame it as condescending. Or racist.
But because it's Democrats, the media can't get over telling us how many hundreds of thousands of people were on the Zoom calls. It's a movement, people, and if you're not a part of it, you must be a bad person.
It's all about signaling openness, tolerance, being a Good Person. Who are you going to be in your workplace or on LinkedIn: someone who addresses the substance of Harris's record and political views, or someone who falls in line and says "YAS, KWEEN"?
Virtually all of our media complex is going to ensure our nation YAS KWEENS Harris into the Oval Office. And if you think the bias, the rank smugness and bad-faith political framing are bad now, just you wait for the bump she gets when she parades whoever her non-toxic masculine running mate is going to be. The Dems and media are playing us all like a fiddle. This is going to build and build right through the DNC.
They will not shut up about wishcasting Trump into a position of being terrified of Kamala. They will not let up about Vance being weird and a fake Appalachian.
Anything that gives Republicans a potential advantage will be framed as "Republicans pounce." The apparent gotcha regarding the Google autocomplete? The AP has a fact-check story from yesterday that says Google was never suppressing stories about Trump's assassination via its autocomplete feature, and that "there is no evidence it was related to election interference." The AP takes Google at its word with utter credulity. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. The system is operating as intended.
The Dems have galvanized their base by offering something that a vote for Biden couldn't do: The feeling of moral superiority. And of sticking it to Trump. That's what this is about. When you vote for Trump to stick it to the libs, you're being bad and anti-democratic. When they vote for Harris to stick it to Trump, it's going to make them feel good and virtuous and every single pundit on MSNBC, CNN, the NYT, the WaPo, and the late night talks shows will smirk in agreement.
On that White Dudes call, Gov. Tim Walz expressed the core motivating factor: "How often in the world do you make that bastard wake up afterwards and know that a black woman kicked his ass and sent him on the road? And you know, that's something that guy's going to have to live with the rest of his life."
This is what the election is about. Not issues. And the Trump campaign and every Republican supporting him are going to play right into their hands. They're going to continue barking stupid shit about DEI hires and Kamala's laugh instead of being the grownups in the room and telling Face the Nation and Meet the Press:
Why would you vote for a candidate who tried to keep prisoners incarcerated past their release date for the free labor?
Why would you vote for someone who laughs about smoking pot while locking people up for it?
Why would you vote for someone who, on the debate stage, has demonstrated a disregard for fundamental rights like the Second Amendment and for the Constitutional processes that offer guardrails on legislation?
The Republicans won't make a cogent argument against Kamala's version of equity and equal outcomes for all because they're led by idiots who would rather shout, "She was the Border Czar!" as if that's going to swing voters in battleground states.
Trump calling Kamala a "nasty woman" may be catnip to his MAGA base, but that base is already in the bag. He and the campaign have to make this about the issues and call out every pundit, every host, every journalist who wants this to be about "brat" or how cool her husband is now or memes about fallng out of coconut trees and ask them, "What in the actual fuck is wrong with you?"
But they won't. And no amount of Trump's glib remarks or withering put-downs by Sky News Australia and Douglas Murray is going to be enough against the machine that's been assembled and will continue to grow between now and the election. This race is over.
I use duckduckgo or luxxle.com However, getting others to do this is harder than one might expect. People don't like change when they are comfortable and it sucks. I hope this article converts a few.
the domination of Google by progressives is a unique feature but otherwise this is pretty common. as new companies develop they fight against entrenched competitors by trying to eliminate rules and regulations that keep them from growing. they brand themselves as radicals innovators to the stodgy dinosaurs. when they achieve success they brand themselves as the newer kinder elite but as they grow they realize they are vulnerable to smaller and more nimble competitors, so they see the need to erect barriers to entry. Thus they work to coopt government bureaucrats to enact regulations that hamstrings their competitors and use their scale to crush innovation.
No better example is amazon's fight against interstate sales tax which they championed until they became big enough that the sales tax hurt their competitors more than it hurt them. also why big corporations really dont care about high taxes.
It’s been widely known since the Bush post 9/11 years that Google was deeply suspect, not working in your interest, and that no sane person should use it. Yet here we are decades later and 90%+ of Americans are still us in that garbage site? Is this the origin of the phrase “You can’t fix stupid”? There are at least a dozen viable search engines and I would hope everyone with an IQ above 80 would use one.
That said, too many smart people are still using Gmail because it’s definitely convenient and has the illusion of being “free” in the monetary sense. Even people who know that Alphabet is capturing all of the content and contacts and selling it to all comers, including marketers and the government still can’t overcome the inertia to get a real email provider. Just stop that people. Please.
Protonmail has a free encrypted service but pay for the upgrade. There are others. And yes you have to change all your accounts with every site you do business with, but just start with changing your login emails with the business and financial companies and phase the rest in over time.
The devil loves to dance and “Do evil always”, says always Sergei. It’s just that he is such a totally soulless and corrupt commie scumbag that it doesn’t always come out that way.
It was powerful the first time and even more so now. Attempted assassination. Crumbling SS added to the list. Thank you for keeping it alive and blocking the memory hole Brad!
I saw a tv series about a detective who was blinded by gangsters who was given artificial eyes. They were linked to computer servers & provided the detective with considerable information. It got to be that presented with a problem, the network offered a solution. And most of the time it was a very good solution so the detective increasingly allowed the ‘eyes’ to guide him with everything. It was an obvious commentary within the story on the relationship between people & their cellphones. Or search engines. The line between guidance & control easily become blurred. A sort of cybernetic boiling frog if you will.
One shall step: DuckDuckGo.com as search engine.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/news-rankings/
Yes, but the problem is that 9 out of 10 people use Google as their search engine. And many of these people remain unaware of the ways Google tailors their internet experience.
This is exactly right. I've used DDG for years; it's not perfect but much better than Google, which I refuse to use. I'm a computer consultant and help many people with their computers, and I am painfully aware that most people have no idea other search engines even exist, never mind the fact that the results are tailored and censored.
The link looks like spam.
Been getting like 10 of these comments a day now, don't ever click on them.
Agree 100%. But the longest journey begins with one step and in this case, with awareness.
Although not Google, this seems to be a good opportunity to note that there was in fact election fraud in Fulton County, Georgia, in 2020. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook spent nearly a million dollars having extra ballot (stuffing) collection boxes placed in Fulton County, one of the five most reliably Democratic Counties in the nation.
Excellent article uncovering the Marxist weasels running big tech. Such a massive gaggle of pansies.
I am so far from woke I am actually awake. I abominate Biden and Harris. I don’t approve of the pejorative pansy
The Walter Kirn post is the perfect finale for this story. They don’t even try to hide any more; it’s all a blatant show of power. We have been bludgeoned with demonstrations for the last few weeks, from the Biden debate aftermath, to the Kamala coronation, to the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics.
Not too many years ago, the elites went to great lengths to hide their nefarious activities. They used to fear public outrage. No more; now they flagrantly demonstrate their power over us.
I use Brave and had no problems doing a Trump/Trump assassinationsearch. I never see anyone mentioning Brave. I wonder why that is.
Brave is great, sadly Google comes pre installed and most don't even know there are options much less how tailored their google search experience actually is.
I use Brave as my default browser, but have to use Chrome or Firefox for banking and other things. I also try to use DDG for most searches, but in my purchasing agent role I need to use Google for the “shopping” feature for work. DDG doesn’t provide the same, wide ranging results.
Yes, same here.
The Democrats are going to keep the White House because in Harris they have a candidate who perfectly fits the kind of election they want to run:
Meme politics, snark, bad-faith framing, iconography
With the invulnerable addition of gender and race and the optics of punching up
Over on Rising, Robby Soave was lamenting about the White Dudes for Kamala call, plaintively wondering why the Dems are separating us by race. But from their POV and the POV of their supporters, they're not. They're signaling how good they are by supporting a black woman. Same with White Women for Kamala -- it's about transcending race. If a Republican were to do this, the media would frame it as condescending. Or racist.
But because it's Democrats, the media can't get over telling us how many hundreds of thousands of people were on the Zoom calls. It's a movement, people, and if you're not a part of it, you must be a bad person.
It's all about signaling openness, tolerance, being a Good Person. Who are you going to be in your workplace or on LinkedIn: someone who addresses the substance of Harris's record and political views, or someone who falls in line and says "YAS, KWEEN"?
Virtually all of our media complex is going to ensure our nation YAS KWEENS Harris into the Oval Office. And if you think the bias, the rank smugness and bad-faith political framing are bad now, just you wait for the bump she gets when she parades whoever her non-toxic masculine running mate is going to be. The Dems and media are playing us all like a fiddle. This is going to build and build right through the DNC.
They will not shut up about wishcasting Trump into a position of being terrified of Kamala. They will not let up about Vance being weird and a fake Appalachian.
Anything that gives Republicans a potential advantage will be framed as "Republicans pounce." The apparent gotcha regarding the Google autocomplete? The AP has a fact-check story from yesterday that says Google was never suppressing stories about Trump's assassination via its autocomplete feature, and that "there is no evidence it was related to election interference." The AP takes Google at its word with utter credulity. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. The system is operating as intended.
The Dems have galvanized their base by offering something that a vote for Biden couldn't do: The feeling of moral superiority. And of sticking it to Trump. That's what this is about. When you vote for Trump to stick it to the libs, you're being bad and anti-democratic. When they vote for Harris to stick it to Trump, it's going to make them feel good and virtuous and every single pundit on MSNBC, CNN, the NYT, the WaPo, and the late night talks shows will smirk in agreement.
On that White Dudes call, Gov. Tim Walz expressed the core motivating factor: "How often in the world do you make that bastard wake up afterwards and know that a black woman kicked his ass and sent him on the road? And you know, that's something that guy's going to have to live with the rest of his life."
This is what the election is about. Not issues. And the Trump campaign and every Republican supporting him are going to play right into their hands. They're going to continue barking stupid shit about DEI hires and Kamala's laugh instead of being the grownups in the room and telling Face the Nation and Meet the Press:
Why would you vote for a candidate who tried to keep prisoners incarcerated past their release date for the free labor?
Why would you vote for someone who laughs about smoking pot while locking people up for it?
Why would you vote for someone who, on the debate stage, has demonstrated a disregard for fundamental rights like the Second Amendment and for the Constitutional processes that offer guardrails on legislation?
The Republicans won't make a cogent argument against Kamala's version of equity and equal outcomes for all because they're led by idiots who would rather shout, "She was the Border Czar!" as if that's going to swing voters in battleground states.
Trump calling Kamala a "nasty woman" may be catnip to his MAGA base, but that base is already in the bag. He and the campaign have to make this about the issues and call out every pundit, every host, every journalist who wants this to be about "brat" or how cool her husband is now or memes about fallng out of coconut trees and ask them, "What in the actual fuck is wrong with you?"
But they won't. And no amount of Trump's glib remarks or withering put-downs by Sky News Australia and Douglas Murray is going to be enough against the machine that's been assembled and will continue to grow between now and the election. This race is over.
I use duckduckgo or luxxle.com However, getting others to do this is harder than one might expect. People don't like change when they are comfortable and it sucks. I hope this article converts a few.
the domination of Google by progressives is a unique feature but otherwise this is pretty common. as new companies develop they fight against entrenched competitors by trying to eliminate rules and regulations that keep them from growing. they brand themselves as radicals innovators to the stodgy dinosaurs. when they achieve success they brand themselves as the newer kinder elite but as they grow they realize they are vulnerable to smaller and more nimble competitors, so they see the need to erect barriers to entry. Thus they work to coopt government bureaucrats to enact regulations that hamstrings their competitors and use their scale to crush innovation.
No better example is amazon's fight against interstate sales tax which they championed until they became big enough that the sales tax hurt their competitors more than it hurt them. also why big corporations really dont care about high taxes.
It’s been widely known since the Bush post 9/11 years that Google was deeply suspect, not working in your interest, and that no sane person should use it. Yet here we are decades later and 90%+ of Americans are still us in that garbage site? Is this the origin of the phrase “You can’t fix stupid”? There are at least a dozen viable search engines and I would hope everyone with an IQ above 80 would use one.
That said, too many smart people are still using Gmail because it’s definitely convenient and has the illusion of being “free” in the monetary sense. Even people who know that Alphabet is capturing all of the content and contacts and selling it to all comers, including marketers and the government still can’t overcome the inertia to get a real email provider. Just stop that people. Please.
Protonmail has a free encrypted service but pay for the upgrade. There are others. And yes you have to change all your accounts with every site you do business with, but just start with changing your login emails with the business and financial companies and phase the rest in over time.
The devil loves to dance and “Do evil always”, says always Sergei. It’s just that he is such a totally soulless and corrupt commie scumbag that it doesn’t always come out that way.
It's just yet another mistake that all happen to go in the same direction - stop questioning it, weirdo!
It was powerful the first time and even more so now. Attempted assassination. Crumbling SS added to the list. Thank you for keeping it alive and blocking the memory hole Brad!
Google has sucked as an actual search engine for years. All it brings up are "sponsored" pages and SEO websites written by AI.
Stop using Google as your search engine. Even the vaunted Wired Magazine ran an article reading the Google’s search results now “suck”.
I saw a tv series about a detective who was blinded by gangsters who was given artificial eyes. They were linked to computer servers & provided the detective with considerable information. It got to be that presented with a problem, the network offered a solution. And most of the time it was a very good solution so the detective increasingly allowed the ‘eyes’ to guide him with everything. It was an obvious commentary within the story on the relationship between people & their cellphones. Or search engines. The line between guidance & control easily become blurred. A sort of cybernetic boiling frog if you will.
Use this search engine instead: https://search.marginalia.nu/