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| − | '''Google''''s core product has always been its [[search engine]], and its influence is such that it has been termed "the world’s biggest [[ Google/Censorship|censor]]".<ref>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-22/google-is-the-worlds-biggest-censor-and-its-power-must-be-regulated</ref> | + | '''Google''''s core product has always been its [[search engine]], and its influence is such that it has been termed "the world’s biggest [[ Google/Censorship|censor]]".<ref>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-22/google-is-the-worlds-biggest-censor-and-its-power-must-be-regulated</ref> As of June 2020, it had 91.75% of market share of search engines. The most effective search engine for some purposes, it has a ever expanding [[Google/Censorship|censorship]] policy, so ''[[Wikispooks]] editors are not recommended to rely upon it - a variety of different [[search engine]]s is undoubtedly a more effective way of accessing a range of material.'' |
==Origins== | ==Origins== | ||
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===Censorship=== | ===Censorship=== | ||
{{FA|Google/Censorship}} | {{FA|Google/Censorship}} | ||
| − | [[image:google censor.png|left|300px]] | + | [[image:google censor.png|left|300px|thumb]] |
| − | Google has been censoring content since at least 2010.<ref>https://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/</ref> The extent of its censorship is harder to assess than with other types of website. In 2017 modifications to its algorithms resulted in reduced traffic to "left-wing, progressive and anti-war websites, which cut the search traffic of 13 leading news outlets by 55 percent since April". The World Socialist Web Site reported an 85% drop in search referrals over that period.<ref>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/19/goog-s19.html</ref> | + | Google has been censoring content since at least 2010.<ref>https://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/</ref> The extent of its censorship is harder to assess than with other types of website. In 2017 modifications to its algorithms resulted in reduced traffic to "left-wing, progressive and anti-war websites, which cut the search traffic of 13 leading news outlets by 55 percent since April". The World Socialist Web Site reported an 85% drop in search referrals over that period.<ref>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/19/goog-s19.html</ref> [[Project Veritas]] published information from [[Zach Vorhies]] in 2019 that showed considerable manipulation and political bias.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/google-engineer-leaks-nearly-1000-internal-documents-alleging-bias-censorship_3042234.html</ref> In 2020, it removed a lot of sites, reportedly due to a "technical issue".<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/news/google-axes-conservative-media/</ref> |
==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
''[[The Register]]'' reports that Google has an "introspective – some would say, cult-like – corporate culture".<ref name=regnov18/> | ''[[The Register]]'' reports that Google has an "introspective – some would say, cult-like – corporate culture".<ref name=regnov18/> | ||
| − | In October | + | In October 2018, "more than 20,000 Google employees walked out of their offices to protest at how several executives had been secretly paid off following allegations of [[sexual harassment]]."<ref name=regnov18>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/google_internal_revolt/</ref> |
==="Hate Speech"=== | ==="Hate Speech"=== | ||
| − | On May 31, 2016, Google agreed with [[Facebook]], [[Microsoft]] and [[Twitter]] to a [[European Union]] code of conduct obligating them to review "[the] majority of valid notifications for removal of illegal [[hate speech]]" posted on their services within 24 hours.<ref name="guardian-euhatespeech"> | + | On May 31, 2016, Google agreed with [[Facebook]], [[Microsoft]] and [[Twitter]] to a [[European Union]] code of conduct obligating them to review "[the] majority of valid notifications for removal of illegal [[hate speech]]" posted on their services within 24 hours.<ref name="guardian-euhatespeech">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/31/facebook-youtube-twitter-microsoft-eu-hate-speech-code</ref> |
[[Ben Gomes]], Google's vice president for engineering, announced in April 2017 that Google’s search engine would block access to “offensive” sites, while working to surface more “authoritative content.” A 2017 march to protest Google's decision to reduce traffic to sites critical of the government's {{on}} was cancelled after threats of violence.<ref>http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=156290</ref> | [[Ben Gomes]], Google's vice president for engineering, announced in April 2017 that Google’s search engine would block access to “offensive” sites, while working to surface more “authoritative content.” A 2017 march to protest Google's decision to reduce traffic to sites critical of the government's {{on}} was cancelled after threats of violence.<ref>http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=156290</ref> | ||
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"It’s quite obvious [Google] want to be Skynet (of ‘''The Terminator''’). They have their own military robots, and have stated that they desire to create a profile on every human.”<ref>http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/09/19/want-online-privacy-heres-how-hint-dont-google/</ref> | "It’s quite obvious [Google] want to be Skynet (of ‘''The Terminator''’). They have their own military robots, and have stated that they desire to create a profile on every human.”<ref>http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/09/19/want-online-privacy-heres-how-hint-dont-google/</ref> | ||
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| + | ===Homepage=== | ||
| + | [[image:Google_supports_veterans.png|right|280px|caption|thumbnail|"Google engaging in more troop worship - trying to keep those recruitment numbers up by propagating the lie that military members are heroes who serve their country."<ref>https://imgur.com/NDps2Vh</ref>]] | ||
| + | Google sometimes adorns its homepage with an icon or phrase in honour of a special event or anniversary. Various groups have criticised it for its selections (or sometimes non-selections). | ||
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| + | ==Google trends== | ||
| + | [[image:Google trend non-violent extremism.png|left|520px|thumbnail|Google trends data illustrating how the phrase "[[non-violent extremism]]" suddenly emerged in January 2011]]. | ||
| + | [[Google trends]] is a website that allows users to search on recorded data of who searched for what when. It has been very helpful why trying to establish the vintage of particular words and phrases. | ||
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| + | ==Manipulation of search results == | ||
| + | {{FA|Algorithm manipulation}} | ||
| + | Google has repeatedly denied manual intervention in any particular search results, arguing that it only works at the level of modifying algorithms.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/09/google-news-blacklist-search-manipulation/</ref> However, this is contradicted by whistleblowers including [[Zach Vorbies]], who provided a internal documents about the process. | ||
==Search Engine alternatives== | ==Search Engine alternatives== | ||
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| − | |caption=So You've Decided To Boycott Google... | + | |caption=So You've Decided To Boycott Google... <ref>https://www.corbettreport.com/so-youve-decided-to-boycott-google/</ref> |
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| + | Although the most popular search engine, Google is certainly not the only one. This site currently lists {{SMWCount|Search engine}} [[search engines]], including some which are [[open source]], such as [[SearX]] and [[Gigablast]]. | ||
===Searx=== | ===Searx=== | ||
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| − | + | [[Searx]] is an open source metasearch engine. The successor to [[Seeks]], and has been operating since 2014. Users are allowed to specify their own rules about ordering search results. This provides an effective way to break out of the [[search bubble]]s associated with search engines such as Google that profile users. | |
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| − | + | ===Gigablast=== | |
| − | + | {{FA|Gigablast}} | |
| + | [[Gigablast]] is an open source search engine that went beta in 2002 and as of 2019 was still under active development. | ||
| + | {{SMWDocs}} | ||
| − | + | ==References== | |
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{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
Latest revision as of 11:18, 6 September 2023
 Google  (Big Tech, Search Engine, Global surveillance)        | |
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| Founders | • .jpg){kind=small} Larry Page•  Sergey Brin |
| Parent organization | Alphabet |
| Headquarters | Googleplex, Mountain View, California, U.S. |
| Type | Subsidiary |
| Subgroups | List of subsidiaries |
| Staff | 57,148 |
| Slogan | Don't be evil |
| Interests | Platformization, Confirmation bias |
| Interest of | Robert Epstein, Ray Kurzweil, Bob Lee, Project Veritas |
| Member of | Centre for European Policy Studies/Corporate Members, Council on Foreign Relations/Corporate Members, European Policy Centre, Highlands Forum, WEF/Strategic Partners |
| Founder of | Singularity University |
| Sponsor of | WEF/Young Global Leaders, Center for American Progress, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, European Forum Alpbach |
| Exposed by | Greg Coppola, Zach Vorhies |
| Subpage | •Google/CFO •Google/Censorship •Google/Chrome •Google/Playstore |
| Global Internet/Skynet conglomerate | |
Google's core product has always been its search engine, and its influence is such that it has been termed "the world’s biggest censor".[1] As of June 2020, it had 91.75% of market share of search engines. The most effective search engine for some purposes, it has a ever expanding censorship policy, so Wikispooks editors are not recommended to rely upon it - a variety of different search engines is undoubtedly a more effective way of accessing a range of material.
Contents
Origins
Google was started by Pd.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin and received seed-funding from both the NSA and CIA. Nafeez Ahmed has published an insightful piece on the origins of Google[2].
Government connections
The Register noted in 2016 that "Aside from the fact it is persistently one of the biggest lobbyists in DC, there has also been: the last-minute change made to net neutrality rules solely because of a letter received from Google; the unusual dropping of anti-trust investigations into the search giant; the curious "non prosecution agreement" it reached with the FBI over drug ads; and the fact that a review of logs showed that Google execs meet with White House officials on average once a week..[3]
Military
"Google's artificial intelligence technologies are being used by the US military for one of its drone projects."[4]
Revolving door
- Full article: Revolving door
- Full article: Revolving door
Watchdog.org reports that "More than 250 people have moved from Google and related firms to the federal government or vice versa since President Barack Obama took office."[5]
Censorship
- Full article: Google/Censorship
- Full article: Google/Censorship
Google has been censoring content since at least 2010.[6] The extent of its censorship is harder to assess than with other types of website. In 2017 modifications to its algorithms resulted in reduced traffic to "left-wing, progressive and anti-war websites, which cut the search traffic of 13 leading news outlets by 55 percent since April". The World Socialist Web Site reported an 85% drop in search referrals over that period.[7] Project Veritas published information from Zach Vorhies in 2019 that showed considerable manipulation and political bias.[8] In 2020, it removed a lot of sites, reportedly due to a "technical issue".[9]
Culture
The Register reports that Google has an "introspective – some would say, cult-like – corporate culture".[10]
In October 2018, "more than 20,000 Google employees walked out of their offices to protest at how several executives had been secretly paid off following allegations of sexual harassment."[10]
"Hate Speech"
On May 31, 2016, Google agreed with Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter to a European Union code of conduct obligating them to review "[the] majority of valid notifications for removal of illegal hate speech" posted on their services within 24 hours.[11]
Ben Gomes, Google's vice president for engineering, announced in April 2017 that Google’s search engine would block access to “offensive” sites, while working to surface more “authoritative content.” A 2017 march to protest Google's decision to reduce traffic to sites critical of the government's official narrative was cancelled after threats of violence.[12]
"It’s quite obvious [Google] want to be Skynet (of ‘The Terminator’). They have their own military robots, and have stated that they desire to create a profile on every human.”[13]
Homepage
Google sometimes adorns its homepage with an icon or phrase in honour of a special event or anniversary. Various groups have criticised it for its selections (or sometimes non-selections).
Google trends
.
Google trends is a website that allows users to search on recorded data of who searched for what when. It has been very helpful why trying to establish the vintage of particular words and phrases.
Manipulation of search results
- Full article: Algorithm manipulation
- Full article: Algorithm manipulation
Google has repeatedly denied manual intervention in any particular search results, arguing that it only works at the level of modifying algorithms.[15] However, this is contradicted by whistleblowers including Zach Vorbies, who provided a internal documents about the process.
Search Engine alternatives
| So You've Decided To Boycott Google... [16] |
Although the most popular search engine, Google is certainly not the only one. This site currently lists 21 search engines, including some which are open source, such as SearX and Gigablast.
Searx
- Full article: Searx
- Full article: Searx
Searx is an open source metasearch engine. The successor to Seeks, and has been operating since 2014. Users are allowed to specify their own rules about ordering search results. This provides an effective way to break out of the search bubbles associated with search engines such as Google that profile users.
Gigablast
- Full article: Gigablast
- Full article: Gigablast
Gigablast is an open source search engine that went beta in 2002 and as of 2019 was still under active development.
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Tech | “So one of the things that these five companies have done kind of masterfully is create these platforms that startups have to use to get to customers. So they all own these cloud-storage services. So Amazon is an example. If you want to store your media online - so, for example, all the movies that you watch on Netflix are actually stored on Amazon servers - so every time you use Netflix, Netflix is kind of paying Amazon for that kind of storage.
Yeah. It's surprising, first of all, because they're such different companies. You wouldn't really know - you wouldn't really think that they would have that kind of connection. And then they're also competitors. Netflix makes original TV shows and so does Amazon. And so, you know, in this way, Netflix has this dependence on one of its competitors. There are lots of different examples of this though. There - you know, all app makers have to put their apps in the Apple app store or the Google app store. And when they sell in those apps, 30 percent of that money goes to Apple or Google. They all have to advertise on Facebook or Google to get customers because that's become the way to advertise on digital platforms. And so any new app - Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, all the other sort of smaller companies online - have to go through these five to get to their customers. And what ends up happening is that other companies succeed, but always these five benefit off of that success.” | Farhad Manjoo | 26 October 2017 |
| Platformization | “So one of the things that these five companies have done kind of masterfully is create these platforms that startups have to use to get to customers. So they all own these cloud-storage services. So Amazon is an example. If you want to store your media online - so, for example, all the movies that you watch on Netflix are actually stored on Amazon servers - so every time you use Netflix, Netflix is kind of paying Amazon for that kind of storage.
Yeah. It's surprising, first of all, because they're such different companies. You wouldn't really know - you wouldn't really think that they would have that kind of connection. And then they're also competitors. Netflix makes original TV shows and so does Amazon. And so, you know, in this way, Netflix has this dependence on one of its competitors. There are lots of different examples of this though. There - you know, all app makers have to put their apps in the Apple app store or the Google app store. And when they sell in those apps, 30 percent of that money goes to Apple or Google. They all have to advertise on Facebook or Google to get customers because that's become the way to advertise on digital platforms. And so any new app - Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, all the other sort of smaller companies online - have to go through these five to get to their customers. And what ends up happening is that other companies succeed, but always these five benefit off of that success.” | Farhad Manjoo | 26 October 2017 |
| Search engine | “When trying to triangulate truth these days, it is often useful to employ multiple different search engines.” | Robert Malone | 28 January 2023 |
Employees on Wikispooks
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Google and the NSA | article | 24 August 2013 | Julian Assange | |
| Document:Huawei’s phone business would be decimated without Google’s Android | Article | 20 May 2019 | Vlad Savov | A resolution to the ongoing trade dispute between the US and China is now more urgent than ever. However, China is unlikely to react positively to the bullying tactics of the US. And that means Huawei’s phone business may be in limbo for a while yet. |
| Document:Jews Boast of Owning Hollywood - But Slam Gentiles Who Say the Same Thing | article | 6 July 2014 | Editorial staff | Jewish control of Hollywood, Censorship by Google and the taboo on mentioning it by Gentiles |
| Document:The new mind control | article | March 2016 | Robert Epstein | The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do |
A document sourced from Google
| Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maldives Revisited | Report | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Indian Ocean Malaysia Airlines Malaysia Maldives | 12 August 2016 | Blaine Gibson | Private investigator Blaine Gibson went with a team of private citizens to the islands of the Maldives, to find the citizens that claimed they saw a plane similar to MH370 in a very narrow time span the night of the disappearance. After also finding debris - in fact, even out-performing a $200 million joint-search by the authorities, one of Gibsons associates was assassinated, he was threatened to be next in line and subsequently went in hiding. |
References
- ↑ http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-22/google-is-the-worlds-biggest-censor-and-its-power-must-be-regulated
- ↑ https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e
- ↑ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/18/latest_clinton_email_release_google_foreign_policy_efforts/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/07/google-ai-us-department-of-defense-military-drone-project-maven-tensorflow
- ↑ http://watchdog.org/265844/google-obama-revolving-door/
- ↑ https://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/
- ↑ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/19/goog-s19.html
- ↑ https://www.theepochtimes.com/google-engineer-leaks-nearly-1000-internal-documents-alleging-bias-censorship_3042234.html
- ↑ https://thenationalpulse.com/news/google-axes-conservative-media/
- ↑ a b https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/google_internal_revolt/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/31/facebook-youtube-twitter-microsoft-eu-hate-speech-code
- ↑ http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=156290
- ↑ http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/09/19/want-online-privacy-heres-how-hint-dont-google/
- ↑ https://imgur.com/NDps2Vh
- ↑ https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/09/google-news-blacklist-search-manipulation/
- ↑ https://www.corbettreport.com/so-youve-decided-to-boycott-google/
