Re: Goggle is hijacking Usenet

Tom Potter wrote:
"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:zwBRl.709678$yE1.150030@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Tom Potter wrote:

I am sadden to see that my pal "Klaus Schadenfreude"
does not comprehend that if a small group of people obtain a monopoly or near monopoly on the storage of information, the retrieval of the information, and who can and who cannot retrieve the information, that this will seriously wound free speech and democracy.
When one has choices (for search engines) its had to make
the case the any one search engine has a monopoly. Where is
your search engine, Potter?

I assume that my pal Sammy meant "hard"

Correct Potter.

rather than "had", and "what" rather than "where".

No, really, where is your search engine, Potter?


As I have posted, I use Firefox with the "hypersearch"and ""add to tool bar"add-oms.

I assume, Potter, you mean "add-ons".


When I run across a good search engine, I enter it onto the Firefox search,

and when I want to search for information, I copy the search phrase to the search box, and select the particular search engine that I think will do the best job.

Are you avoiding using google, because they are avoiding you, Potter?


I have about 40 search engines that I use including:
http://www.archive.org for audio, video, old news reels, books, etc.
http://www.scribd.com for reading material
http://www.spock.com/api and http://en.wikipedia.org for people information
http://www.time.com/time/magazine for quick looks on "distortëd" 20th Century history
http://dictionary.reference.com/ for a quick word lookup
http://search.ebay.com/ to research products
http://www.reference.com for a quick overview of some subjects.
http://www.visuwords.com to find unknown connections
http://www.iseek.com to home in on a subject
etc.

and I use Amazon, Google and Wikipedia to home in on complex searches.
and I read the Amazon book reviews of books on some subject and pick the minds of the reviewers, as they are knowledgeable and one get to the heart of a subject much faster than using
Google or Wikipedia, which have a much higher noise level.

Sort of like "noise levels" in USENET newsgroups, Potter?


Unfortunately, at this time, Google, who started out on the **right** path, has taken a **left** turn in recent years,

has a monopoly on the only independent ""vox populi", Usenet, and they are decreasingly abusing truth and free speech,

I always thought that monopolies "forced" users to use the
product, but at you point out, Potter, there are many many
alternatives to google, so you have a free choice... and
google is NOT a monopoly.

Because you are a bigoted old man and got booted by google for
your damning ways, doesn't make google the bad guy, Potter.
In this case, they are the good guy.

What's their motto? "Do no evil"?


so it looks like Google is taking the same path that the New York Times, Time Inc, the Hearst Papers, and the Washington Post took in the 1900's,

and that is they are providing the public with the best overall system, and using it to lure folks into a trap where they can manipulated, conned, instigated into conflicts and wars, and having the assets and lives taken.

In other words, Google like the mass media has turned into a rat trap, and have very good bait to lure rats into the trap.

Google is ripe for the picking, and if I were young and ambitious, I would go after them.

The best strategy to knock off Google, would be to offer a Usenet alternate, and cater to the energetic, active people who use Usenet, as they are the Internet opinion makers,

and when they switch search engine loyalty, and begin to migrate to a new system, the masses will follow, if the new service provides a decent web search, as many already do, they will also use the Web search.

The folks in Usenet discovered Google early, became enthusiastic users, and other folks followed them to Google.


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