I’ve been a hard-core computer nerd and have been a writer for longer than I care to reveal, many decades. The nature of human interaction is simple and easily understood, we all have, and always did, a desire to be “in the know,” and to be accepted as accurate. Thus the seeds of propaganda, indoctrination, advertising, agitprop, and so on, are inherent in the workings of humanity. This is to be expected and is an inherent aspect of human communication. It can be artistic!
I’m as guilty as anyone of writing my articles to prove a point which I believe to be legitimate. A massively important tool in all of this is the resources one has, to research the topic at hand. It’s easy enough to simply make a blanket statement based on one’s ideology, but to sell a concept requires an understanding of whatever issues are actually involved. To say, “Biden” picks his nose and eats it, becomes much more effective if you have evidence. The stronger the evidence the more undeniable your statement becomes.
For many years, in my experience, this required actual work. The location of literary resources, news pieces, personal interactions. The encyclopedia was a powerful tool. The computer age changed all that. The encyclopedia, newspapers, books and articles were replaced by the internet and, sadly, the trust we had in those resources was transferred to what we find on the internet. As the internet has grown, it’s become fairly easy to find whatever one wishes to find. The key to all of this, in terms of the internet, is the search engine. In the beginning the search engines were quite legitimate and the results you got were actually reflective of the resources which were available, and the searches were directed specifically by the question asked. “Donald Trump wears blue suits,” would result in articles referencing Trump wearing blue suits.
As the power of inquisition and directed results became more and more apparent, the direct legitimacy of the results became far less dependable. “Donald Trump wears blue suits,” would bring back results having less to do with Trump’s suits than with the political intent of whomever is in control of the search engine. The function is simple, the search engine builds a “search index,” consisting of billions of pages based on backlinks, sitemaps, and URL submissions. the search engine then “crawls” through this index looking for relative resources and how applicable the resource is in comparison to the data being searched. It’s all very simple and mathematic. But here’s the rub, search engines use algorithms to match and rank relevant results. Here is where the programmer can step in and modify the way results will be matched and the order in which they are ranked. No one, outside of the programmers, knows exactly how these algorithms are structured, but the result has become painfully obvious.
If you search a simple basic, such as “why do cats often have blue eyes?” You’ll get results like: “Exploring the Mystery of Why Cats Have Blue Eyes,” “Why Are Cats Born With Blue Eyes,” “The Science Behind Cats With Blue Eyes,” and so on. The results, an accurate representation of sites and their relevance and popularity. If, on the other hand, you enter “Why does Trump Wear Blue Suits?” You’ll get (these are specific and actual results): “Why Donald Trump wears the same outfit and the one item of clothing he will not wear,” “Three Reasons Trump’s Suits Fit Him so Badly,” “Why Trump’s Suits Look Cheap,” “The Meaning Behind Trump’s Ill Fitting Suits.” “What If Donald Trump’s Mismatched Was An Attempt at Fashion?” Do you see anything fishy? Anyone interested in putting together an article about Trump’s blue suits comes up with nothing but negatives about Trump. OK, now try “Why does Biden Wear Blue Suits?” You get: An Expert Tailor Breaks Down the Differences Between Trump’s and Biden’s Suits.” “Presidential Style: Joe Biden’s Sartorial Choices Throughout the Year.” “The Biden’s Style Legacy: American Designers and Biden Blue.” “Sharp Suits, Rolexes, and Aviators: How President Biden Brought His Sartorial A-Game to the White House.” “How Biden Won in Bright Blue.”
If you get political, this algorithmic nightmare becomes absurd: Your Complete Guide to Tariffs: How Much You’ll Pay and When.” “What Are Tariffs and Why Is Trump Threatening to Use them?” and on it goes with negative articles about a concept which has a long history here in America, which will protect American businesses, make American made products more attractive, attract businesses to produce their products in America, and most importantly lower taxes, and generate funding to apply towards America’s absurd national debt.
Thus, it becomes apparent that our “search engines” have become political tools being employed by the technocracy, the globalists and our demonicrat party for political purposes rather than as effective research tools.
The worst of these political weapons is, of course, Google who has been convicted of violating US antitrust law. Reuters, who is even worse than Google, in terms of being a tool for globalism and state control, has announced that Google has an illegal monopoly on searching.
There are numerous search engines out there, many claiming to be more ligitimate than Google I haven’t tried them all, but what I have tried produced results quite similar to what I get from Google. Exactly the same, in fact. Elon Musk is coming out with a search engine I think will be a vast improvement. We’ll see. (Hurry Elon Musk!)
~Bacon
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