> The stated mission of a company worth almost two trillion dollars is to “organize the world’s information” Wikipedia, millions of volunteers and bloggers org

> The stated mission of a company worth almost two trillion dollars is to “organize the world’s information” Wikipedia, millions of volunteers and bloggers organise the world's information. Google just leaches off them, they cant even organise Youtube Does youtube prioritise videos that have the most informational value, news that are most objective? No, they financially reward those that produce misinformation and conspiracy theories. You could argue 'well, thats what sells', but then you can't claim any higher purpose or mission - its just peddling whatever is popular, like fast fashion. Or do an experiment, search for a government service like 'open a company in UK' or 'apply for a driving lisence', queries where there is only a single government service per country - and google will return a page full of scams. During the pandemic i tried to find COVID related rules for entering moldova- the result was on like page 7. If failing to find official public information is not 'ublnderperforming', i dont know what is. The premice of this thesis is wrong - no-one is seruously trying to make the search engine that produces the best answers because the competition is basically gone, and because the web has been balcanised from open system into feudal kindgdoms.