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Do you think Google is willingly sliding into censorship with their core search product? The reality is, Google is in a tough place legally with certain conten

Do you think Google is willingly sliding into censorship with their core search product? The reality is, Google is in a tough place legally with certain content. How will your proposed search disruptor handle these same legal and ethical issues differently from Google?

stevenicr 9y ago
I think in some areas google is being pressured by various govts. However in many areas they are self censoring for different reasons by different people and groups of people within the G sphere. Both are bad and are going to far IMO. I understand the reality you speak of, I've read a lot of news regarding this for years. My proposed search disruptor idea is to have it vary the top results on various verticals and the results as a whole based upon region, even state by state, city by city. Some of this due the regulatory pressures that exist, some due to the community standards that exist and vary town by town, state by sate, country by country.. but also as a wise business move.. as getting the accepted content to those in city X and ads that city X is likely to enjoy is a win win, and keeps the san fran ads from freaking out the small town groups on the other side of the state will bring less pressure.. So yes it's possible to do this much better. I know big G could do it - but they are thinking on a bigger more scale-able and move on issues, so a niche nimble engine can do this better.. There also appears to be groups at G that want to censor more and more things that are not illegal, what was the term for the last ceo? Make them grow up and adult or need a babysitter or something? Anyhow, they are censoring a LOT of results based on negative push down factors from their hatred of SEO from years back - and that is making the engine server a lot less of what people are looking for as well - no pressure from and regulatory there - just a moby dick thing where they are cutting their nose off despite their adwords.. There is money on the table, it's a problem that could use fixing, and we can do it better than they can. It will only effectively target 20% of G's searches.. and we'd probably only get about 8% of the adwords type money that G is getting.. but I think a nimble search portal could provide a decent living for a group of coders and investors on that kind of money for a while.

stevenicr 9y ago

I think in some areas google is being pressured by various govts. However in many areas they are self censoring for different reasons by different people and groups of people within the G sphere. Both are bad and are going to far IMO. I understand the reality you speak of, I've read a lot of news regarding this for years. My proposed search disruptor idea is to have it vary the top results on various verticals and the results as a whole based upon region, even state by state, city by city. Some of this due the regulatory pressures that exist, some due to the community standards that exist and vary town by town, state by sate, country by country.. but also as a wise business move.. as getting the accepted content to those in city X and ads that city X is likely to enjoy is a win win, and keeps the san fran ads from freaking out the small town groups on the other side of the state will bring less pressure.. So yes it's possible to do this much better. I know big G could do it - but they are thinking on a bigger more scale-able and move on issues, so a niche nimble engine can do this better.. There also appears to be groups at G that want to censor more and more things that are not illegal, what was the term for the last ceo? Make them grow up and adult or need a babysitter or something? Anyhow, they are censoring a LOT of results based on negative push down factors from their hatred of SEO from years back - and that is making the engine server a lot less of what people are looking for as well - no pressure from and regulatory there - just a moby dick thing where they are cutting their nose off despite their adwords.. There is money on the table, it's a problem that could use fixing, and we can do it better than they can. It will only effectively target 20% of G's searches.. and we'd probably only get about 8% of the adwords type money that G is getting.. but I think a nimble search portal could provide a decent living for a group of coders and investors on that kind of money for a while.