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There really needs to be some checks and balances here. Perhaps an opensource search engine? I think an entity like Google having so much control over which bus
by dmak 13y ago
There really needs to be some checks and balances here. Perhaps an opensource search engine? I think an entity like Google having so much control over which businesses die or survive is a little ridiculous.
- ouggnay 13y agoDo you have any idea how easy it would be to game an open source search engine?
- camus2 13y agoThe issue is Google has become the only way to discover content on the web. Before Google, there was much more competition or alternative ways to make content discoverable. Now people basically only "google" stuffs up, and that's not going to change. And search capabilities on most websites are provided by Google too ,that's insane and dangerous. Google has become the WEB and if you are not on Google , you dont exist. Google is now an institution thus "too big to fail",and so much for anti-trust laws.
- icebraining 13y agoWe already have an Open Source search engine, it's called YaCy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy Of course, nobody uses it.