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Google, facebook etc are not services anymore. They are necessities to everyday life. They should have been regulated already to the point where they'd turn non

Google, facebook etc are not services anymore. They are necessities to everyday life. They should have been regulated already to the point where they'd turn non-profit. (Like wikipedia) We are not talking about businesses anymore, we are talking about necessities in life that have the monopoly to do whatever they want and change people's lives around. Btw I am using duckduckgo, its results are quite good compared to what it was 2 years go. I don't miss google and its 2-5 ad's per search. Thing is I don't see duckduckgo overcoming google at any point, as for the normal everyday person google is just a searchgod and thats it. An everyday normal guy can't understand the implications to his privacy by google,fb etc getting data off him/her. So he/she won't change to something else, until is forced to.

2OEH8eoCRo 9y ago
What implications are there to using Google?
gbacon 9y ago
So is Google a necessity, as you assert in your first paragraph, or isn’t it, as you demonstrate in the last?
- kuschku 9y ago
  Google is something you choose to use for a user. But Google is a necessary infrastructure for businesses and developers, as they can't not use Google, due to the market share it has. Google also uses their power in one market to affect other markets, and grow further. This, again, is monopolistic action. Try going a week without using Google, fine. Try running a major website a week without being listed on Google?
kuschku 9y ago
Correct, Google has become basic infrastructure, and should be a nonprofit entity, or governmentally owned. You can't run a website without being listed on Google, that's where the matket dominance comes in. And this shouldn't be true. You should always have a choice between what company you interact with, or, if it's a monopoly, it should be governed democratically (so usually owned by the state).
muse900 9y ago
some google employees downvoted me, go ahead more hate for stating the obvious.
- sctb 9y ago
  Don't do this, please. > Please don't accuse others of astroturfing or shillage. Email us instead and we'll look into it. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

2OEH8eoCRo 9y ago

What implications are there to using Google?

gbacon 9y ago

So is Google a necessity, as you assert in your first paragraph, or isn’t it, as you demonstrate in the last?

kuschku 9y ago
Google is something you choose to use for a user. But Google is a necessary infrastructure for businesses and developers, as they can't not use Google, due to the market share it has. Google also uses their power in one market to affect other markets, and grow further. This, again, is monopolistic action. Try going a week without using Google, fine. Try running a major website a week without being listed on Google?

kuschku 9y ago

Correct, Google has become basic infrastructure, and should be a nonprofit entity, or governmentally owned. You can't run a website without being listed on Google, that's where the matket dominance comes in. And this shouldn't be true. You should always have a choice between what company you interact with, or, if it's a monopoly, it should be governed democratically (so usually owned by the state).

muse900 9y ago

some google employees downvoted me, go ahead more hate for stating the obvious.

sctb 9y ago
Don't do this, please. > Please don't accuse others of astroturfing or shillage. Email us instead and we'll look into it. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html