Posted on 07/01/2011 6:15:10 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com
You don’t have to believe in karma to find the irony in the fact that the Web giant Google is finding itself in the cross hairs of the same pressure groups that it funded back when it was pushing heavily for “network neutrality.”
The latest cause celebre among this crowd is “search neutrality,” the idea that somehow the government needs to get into the business of Internet search engines.
After spending millions funding network-neutrality advocates when it was trying to pass along its bandwidth costs to consumers and companies such as Verizon and Comcast, Google is finding itself being opposed by its former allies, who are bent on finding another sector of the Internet to take over.
Beyond the Orwellian name similarity, search neutrality is the same concept as network neutrality except that instead of controlling cable Internet bills, the government would be controlling what you do or do not see when you pull up Bing or Google.
That may not seem like such a big deal at first because most of us couldn’t remember the top hits for any of the search queries we use, but imagine if the concept were extended to other media: Instead of turning on the television and seeing the news your favorite TV or radio host has selected, you would see what the government told him he could say was the most important.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Google is its own reward....
Google should have used its in-house search engine for examples of ‘Entities and/or persons who got into bed with federal agencies and got a royal screwing and plenty of unintended consequences.’
Google keeps running despicable ads against one of the Wisconsin senators who is under recaller — full of lies and misleading information and a really ugly picture of her.
I hate them. I hope their ad backfires.
Google's politics and anti-religious policies give them a "too big to fail" false sense of importance. They deserve to be regulated or replaced by a bigger, better search engine. Scroogle and Ixquick work just fine for me.
I hope everyone here is using other search engines.
just changed home page over to ixquick.com also loaded the ixquick tool for firefox. Everyone needs to start putting their money where their mouth is.
Quit working with companies that take the money you give them and support the opposition candidates.
just changed home page over to ixquick.com also loaded the ixquick tool for firefox. Everyone needs to start putting their money where their mouth is.
Quit working with companies that take the money you give them and support the opposition candidates.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.