Posted on 06/28/2014 10:29:26 PM PDT by dbehsman
Either we have the freedom to peacefully assemble (or not assemble) or we do not. Time for some legal ju-jitsu. Sue Google under the same laws that force Christians to serve homos and force them to carry the advertisements.
Personally, I am of the opinion that so called “anti discrimination laws” are a clear violation of the freedom of assembly clause.
I apologize. I didn't mean to come across that harsh.
Anyone that watched the genesis of google could see that they had a really bright idea. Good for them. But to say that they have some right to other peoples content was and still is wrong headed from a property rights standpoint.
Anyone has the right to cite the work of anyone else without paying. The fact that Google and others cite stuff on a really large scale with a convenient user interface (and make a fortune by selling ads to go with) has no bearing on that basic fact. Other than their vastly better technology, Google is really no different than the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature or a library's card catalog.
If search engines had been required to pay web authors, they never would have got off the ground, and the web would be a far less useful thing.
Considering you line of thinking I wonder if you think it absurd or ironic that today google polices and scrubs content that they decide is unworthy of providing. Recently they decided to censor (yea, I understand the true meaning of the word) web pages that may have words that say things like "gun for sale".
According to the article, they are not going to accept gun ads. It doesn't say anything about filtering pages. For instance, if I search for Bushmaster XM-15 rifle, I get plenty of hits, including potentially useful related search suggestions, but no ads, even though I mentioned a specific brand name and model number. If I search for Bushmaster XM-15 manual, Google's lead hit is this PDF. Now, that's downright helpful! But if I search for a non-gun product, e.g., Sangean PR D15, I get a large pile of hits and Google shopping results and a slew of ads. Interestingly, if I try the Bushmaster XM-15 rifle query on Bing, I do get one ad, from Amazon.com/sports (free 2-day shipping).
How anyone can think that simply because something like google is a valuable tool that means that they should realize profit off the work of others is indeed idiot to me.
That's how a market economy works. The successful participants are constantly profiting from the work of others as they produce their outputs. And we, the customers, through our buying decisions, decide how to value the contributions of the various producers. Free tutorial, brought to you by Google.
Too hard to type. Use ddg.gg instead.
I don’t need to type it since it is on my Pale Moon browser.
Good suggestion. Thanks!
Maybe, but I hear once you go black, you’ll never go back....
I use startpage. I dumped google a long time ago
I don’t use google at all. Can I use them less? Probably not, but I will talk about them more.
google is doing evil.
again.
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