We did a search for our latest post using the following search string:
Canspeccy: How will the Ukraine War End?
Bing came up with this, which is what you'd expect, though they were remarkably quick to index the post.
Here's Google's shot at it. Even if we put the post title in quotes, Google can't find it even though it exists on Google's own servers or in their own cloud.
Is that pathetic or what?
Yeah, pathetic absolutely, although when you search Google for the title of this piece they do give you a link to 21 other search engines most, perhaps all, of which do better that Google, or should that be "Gurgle" as in going down the credibility tube.
And yet some guy at Google says their system has achieved consciousness. LOL: The consciousness of the oblivious.
Or should we say that Google is the sanitized search engine: What you don't know cannot cause you to challenge the official narrative. In this case the message telegraphed by NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg as his message rotates 180 degrees a minute.
Which brings to mind, once again, the story about the Russian who is on an airliner heading to the US, and the American in the seat next to him asks, “So what brings you to the US?” The Russian replies, “I’m studying the American approach to propaganda.” The American says, “What propaganda?” The Russian says, “That’s what I mean.”
Postscript, August 10, 2022:
Today, a Google search for our latest post, which is entitled:
As the World's New Number One Bully, Is China Paving the Way to World War
Returns:
But today, Google is again the search engine that can't find its own arse with both hands. Search for:Who Really Killed Kennedy: Joe Rogan gives Steven Pinker's Expert on "weird beliefs" a hard time on the Kennedy Assassination
and you get this:
Bing, in contrast managed to find our current post and list it first out of, allegedly five billion, three hundred and twenty million results. Wow, can there really be that many Web pages devoted to the Kennedy assassination?
Some time ago we pointed out to Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, in a polite letter that Google was either failing to retrieve our blog posts, or deliberately hiding them. We received no reply. Google is evidently run by a philistine, or maybe a CIA agent, or both.
"The Russian who is on an airliner heading to the US, and the American in the seat next to him asks, “So what brings you to the US?” The Russian replies, “I’m studying the American approach to propaganda.” The American says, “What propaganda?” The Russian says, “That’s what I mean.”
ReplyDelete"What in the word 'reality' do you fail to understand," the American heatedly retorts. "Reality TV is reality. Seeing is believing."
"Have you ever had your words taken out of context, or your meaning distorted out of all recognition of what you meant?"
"Of course I have," says the American, still belligerent, perhaps hoping to be intimidating.
"I'd never heard of Donald Trump before I began watching The Apprentice on TV. It was a great show. When Trump said, 'You're fired!' I learned enough to know he'd be a great chief executive, the one man who could get this country back on track."
The Russian is taking notes at this point. He has his tape recorder out.
Yeah. But who in America will get the joke? The media bosses, I suppose.
DeleteThe software companies have the power to censor and thus control political debate, perhaps worldwide. Control perceptions-- I think it means they have total power-- and are totalitarian.
ReplyDeleteGovernments had the power to censor before this, but this is different. These are ostensibly for-profit ostensibly privately-owned corporations. Correct me if I am wrong but for-profit, privately-owned companies never before had such power(influence).
I don't know how it happened, but if anything restricted freedoms, and could become tyrannical, it was governments. Corporations could be bad, (rarely, though, if you look at it outside of "pop" culture, and venture into the way the justice department and law enforcement used kid gloves, each and every time dealing with corporate malfeasance) but somehow they couldn't be tyrannically bad.
One of the reasons they are aren't currently understood as deterring freedoms is because they are perceived as part of "free" enterprise, subjected to the disciplines of the "marketplace". As in the joke, their manipulation of perception and exertion of undue influence, is as if invisible.
Yes, and in America, where money is, for so many, the ultimate measure of human worth, people at present seem ready to tolerate abuse by billionaire corporate heads, for example, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google. (see my letter to Pichai posted above.)
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