Friends, you may recall that the Biden Administration initiated an antitrust case against Alphabet/Google, and I strongly endorsed it, as I see Google as a suffocating presence in not only online searches, but video sharing and smartphone operating systems as well, just to name a few of its more notable subsidiaries. Worse, Google is one of the most shameless offenders when it comes to digital wokeness. When I "Google" any news story, I always get a list of links bristling with mainstream media talking points. Conservative or alternative media is nowhere to be seen. For sound economic and ideological reasons, therefore, I want Google split in twain, and pronto! Keep up the good work, Pam.
In other news, the Royal Society (in the U.K.) has affirmed its support for "science" (gee, I didn't see that one coming), but it has resisted calls to condemn Elon Musk as an enemy of science. Thank heavens! The last thing we need is modern-day "scientists" giving Elon the Galileo treatment. And what exactly are Elon's crimes against "science"? Criticizing its heroes, like Dr. Fauci, and -- much worse -- temporarily interrupting some scientists' access to lucrative government grants! Now, if that isn't the biggest crime against humanity of all time, I don't know what is.
Like many, I have been a dedicated Google Search and Chrome user for decades. When I launched a successful e-commerce business 25 years ago, it was built entirely on organic Google Search—a testament to the power and reach of their platform. But so much has changed since then.
ReplyDeleteWhat Google has created within its ecosystem is undeniably remarkable. Their products—Google Workspace, Search, Chrome—are superior in functionality and widely adopted across personal, business, and educational settings. They work well, provide value, and are deeply ingrained in our daily lives.
And yet, therein lies the problem.
To Dr. Waddy’s point, Google’s dominance is deeply flawed. With 90% control of the search market, they shape global access to information. Their left-leaning search results, an overabundance of paid placements, and increasing influence on AI development present a troubling reality—not just for the U.S. but worldwide.
Consider Google Chrome, which holds 66% of the browser market, leaving competitors like Safari (18%) and Edge (5%) far behind. The DOJ’s proposal to force Google to sell Chrome is a step in the right direction, but ultimately, search is the actual power center, generating $175 billion annually and dictating the company’s content strategy and revenue streams.
Google is a monopoly—one so undeniable that even the Biden DOJ agrees it must be addressed. Ignoring the problem at this stage is willful blindness. However, the real challenge is creating a more competitive and open marketplace.
One immediate solution? Choose an alternative.
I recommend the Brave Browser—a privacy-focused, secure, and unbiased alternative that is quickly gaining momentum. With a commitment to balanced search results, ad-blocking, and data protection, Brave offers a refreshing departure from Google’s ecosystem.
If I want to see multiple perspectives on news, I use Brave Search.
If I want to search for something without fear of future ad tracking, I use Brave.
Despite holding just 1% of the browser market, Brave is nearing 100 million monthly users—and growing fast. DuckDuckGo is also a solid option, but Brave stands out for a truly balanced experience.
The future of search and online privacy is at stake. The question is: Will we challenge the monopoly or continue to be controlled by it?
Dr. Waddy My, my what a time we've been through since the '60s! We crushed most of the physical main force with which Marxism had enslaved myriad millions in its assured progress to utopia, ultima Thule , very paradise itself in the
ReplyDeletemurderous 20th century. But it rose again in an ethereal fog of disingenuous ersatz intellectual hocus pocus to ensnare the overeducated juveniles of the world and for awhile almost settled in for the millennium. Had Marx even heard of Aristotle? Because his skills in logic were terribly lacking. He was another of Germany's gifts to the world over the last 150 years.
Why do I bring this up? What else can explain a mess in which scholars are rightfully compelled to affirm the long proven superiority of science over "feelings". Of course such a creditable evaluation was based on the accumulated empirically supported wisdom of centuries, not on the smoky dorm room dreams of eternal sophomores.Did feelings launch the Voyagers out of the Solar System ? Marxism was catastrophically condemned by the theretofore unimaginably evil consequences of its application in REAL life. The good countries defeated it physically but its intellectually flatulent doctrine survived to further plague civilization into our time.
Luckily, a very perceptible inclination toward just plain common sense is taking hold perhaps most notably in the US and Elon Musk is a key part of bringing it to the policy fore and disabling its presumptuous neo Marxist cadre in our country. They need not necessarily express overtly far left intentions, their very organizational superfluousness , to which the most successful entrepreneur in the world is (surprise, surprise) very "sensitive" (yes antiamericans?) is often enough to discredit them. (eg.Assistant Deputy Facilitators of Equitable Affirmation of Intent to Assure Correct Results).Marxists have promoted the principle, very obviously and fatally so in the countries cursed by their rule, that government is omniscient and deserves to omnipotent.
Admiral Halsey, in cruising back into Pearl Harbor after Dec. 7th, declared "when we are done with them the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell". Ok, that didn't happen; Japan was amply punished for its gratuitous cruelty everywhere its power reached. But let us say this: " We are going to make it so that marxism is only advocated in the deepest reaches of hell, with eternally resident Professors Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot presiding and an appropriately student body of the radical faction of the US baby boomers serving their purgatorial sentences with Vietnamese guards and 'boat people'voluntarily attending them ". Elon Musk is doing almost incalculable good and those who excoriate him speak only for their grievously disproven "feelings" endorsed doctrines!
Dr. Waddy and Richie from Jack : Your views, graced and credited by experience, that great teacher, gave me a lot of understanding I lacked before. I am going to try again to depart Google; they make it hard for a computer dunce like me. If they have such a strong hold on present day information storage and dissemination then the prospect of their leftist control of AI is appalling. AI may have unimaginable potential , yes? Imagine if the implementation of the pioneering technologies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries had been dictated by Marxists! In those years civilization lacked the experience and consequential wisdom we derived from watching that proven hellish theory in action in the 20th century. Thanx to people like you, we need not be misguided again.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: The Dems superheated blast furnace enhanced rhetoric about DJT is plausibly considered to have been a very possible motivation for the assassination attempts endured by our now (by the grace of God) still alive President .
ReplyDeleteNow their basilisk gaze is fixed with possible catastrophic consequences, on Musk and for the same reason. He has invaded a sacred far leftist enclave: funding as a RIGHT, especially that funding gleaned from the "broad masses" , to their betterment if not their edification.
I see Tesla dealerships and individual vehicles are being fire bombed. In one very detached sense its comical; why , electric cars were THE vehicle of the perfect green future promised us by the environmental crazies and it was just fine if state and Federal government turned the screws so as to force the ignorant and recalcitrant public to switch to these, ehh, expensive and flawed vehicles which are at a relative development stage comparable to the old model"T''.
Yeah, but now Teslas are politically incorrect because of their producer's gross heresy and like heresies of old they render him in the jaundiced eye of the radical, "OUTLAW".The " medieval "hue and cry" is back , commanded by antiamerica on pain of inquisition and auto da fe. In the middle ages the population was thereby obligated to task the wrongdoer and some highly unstable people are hearkening back to it!
For a long time I've thought it possible that if amply frustrated, the far left will resort to terrorism. Firebombing locations which may well house living beings, even during off hours , is terrorism and should be treated as such. These recent incidents appear to some far left wing commentators to be deserved by Musk and they are breaking very ominous ground in suggesting so.
Joined with the execrable terroristic oppression of Jewish students at some "universities" this just goes to affirm once again the essentially totalitarian essence of our sagacious, unimpeachable radical rump.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Does it occur to these frantic young "revolution" recreators that Elon Musk is a gutsy HOMBRE?! And just like the now Presidential hombre they harried for years in their vicious totalitarian dudgeon, they may well only foster in Elon a grim determination and resolve to visit justice upon them, unapologetically using the power he most certainly has now to give them their true due. That is , starve them of their financial resources and deny them their parasitic livings.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't 1789 and the U.S. is not the French Ancien Regime. The wretched of that day had much justification for going radical and their own excess eventually schooled them; France is a civilization after all. Their justification does not obtain in our country. I challenge any leftist to assert that it does.
And this isn't the '60s. Back then, a U.S. stunned beyond measure by the astonishing and unprecedented Marxist inspired juvenile ingratitude summarily manifested by so many (not all) of its children against their parents' , was simply caught off its guard! They worked hard to send their children to the colleges which had theretofore been only the province of swells. There they were met by cynical, murderous Marxists who fed on their naivete and directed their unprecedented multitude to trash their own country. That truly greatest generation , which faced down destitution and enervating fear both in the Depression and WWII and then provided its (understandably many offspring) with childhoods unparalleled for prosperity and innocence, were slowly convinced that such counterintuitive injustice was really happening. They weren't helped by period MSM and TV series (like All in the Family, featuring still radical Rob Reiner)which disdained them.
There are far fewer of that great generation left but, in their final realization of how they were betrayed , they have been a deservedly honored part of the Maga movement. They and what they endured are not forgotten. AMERICA IS THOROUGHLY SICK AND TIRED OF RADICALS AND THEIR PRESUMPTUOUS BALONEY!!Try to establish that reality in your smoky brains, antiamerican far leftist freedom hating perfectionist dreamers. Your day is over!
Richie, we really appreciate your expert perspective on Google! I agree: selling off Chrome wouldn't truly knock Alphabet off its perch. We desperately need to break up the search business. I concur that Brave is a better alternative, but frankly I find my searches there for news stories still dominated by links to the MSM. I wonder how easy it is to create a platform that searches the web in an "unbiased" way. Surely any form of programming incorporates the biases of the programmers, no? Anyway, we mustn't allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good. Richie is right that we should all disencumber ourselves of Google's products as much as possible (he said while blogging on Google-owned Blogger and using the Chrome browser.)
ReplyDeleteJack, I agree with you that lefties are invariably ruled by their "feelings" (perhaps we all are), but I would remind you that not a single one of them would admit this. The conceit that their values are based on "facts" is universal on the Left.
I was not aware that Tesla dealerships had been attacked by arsonists, but I'm not surprised. A further descent into violence cannot be ruled out, of course, but I think most establishment leftists and Dem supporters understand that such tactics would be a political gift to Trump. The question is: can the Left control its own extremists?
I hope you're right that Elon will redouble his commitment to conservative, small government principles in reaction to the excoriation he has received. His businesses may suffer globally, but -- let's face it -- he can afford to take the hit. My point would be that, just as he has embraced us (conservative patriots), we must embrace him.
LOL! You caught me!
ReplyDeleteI'm not gonna lie... though I disdain Alphabet's politics, I love their ecosystem.
"Will we challenge the monopoly or continue to be controlled by it?"
As a single user, there are certainly methods to avoid being "controlled" by it, but outside of governmental action, I'm afraid there is little meaningful action to challenge their monopoly. BTW... is there another well endowed, conservative computing platform? I don't know of one.
However, in a radical act of defiance, I've chosen to "Bravely" post!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: What I am suggesting is that an emotionally captured far left, stung to the quick by relentless discreditation and disempowerment, may actually decide that its post '72 disingenuous campaign to undermine America from within its established institutions is no longer feasible. It might then officially decide on terrorism of many sorts as its guiding doctrine. Naturally, the common sense lawful dems would bail out but the "guerrilla" has always been a lonely sort. And there is lots of room to hide in vasty America.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: An interesting day this.
ReplyDeletePassionate young "idealists"(mostly students I would guess but probably some pros and I saw a few boomers reliving those '60s days when they joyfully trashed America)presumed the floor of Trump Tower to PROTEST, dah, dah da - dah, the unbearably unjust removal and imminent deportation home ,from their adoring midst ,of a Syrian alien who has moved the very Secretary of State to declare him a risk for his perceived hatred of America. They carried signs demanding the end of arms provision to Israel, the better I suppose to make it easier for quasi medieval barbarians to murder Israelis in any manner they can imagine. They were very well accoutered in expressive garments obviously produced in some haste and at some little cost. (But gee, I thought the young were "scimped")They readily submitted to being arrested, thinking it will gain them sympathy. NOT!! America is totally fed up with brattish students and cynical , murderously intended far leftists who guide and provoke them. Student are ostensibly engaged in learning and that suggests they have much to learn and that perhaps they ought to realize that they don't know much about this hard world! This ain't the '60s and we know now what these punks are about and so does our President.
BTW, I watched Fox's coverage but switched for awhile to see MSNBC's non coverage of this nominally "anti fascist resistance". It was instructive to consider what summary correction they would have been rendered by real fascists. Some declared Jews were in the throng and the grotesqueness of their proximity to outspoken comparison of our country to the Nazis was manifest!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: More of interest: Much speculation today about possible Dem candidates in '28 (if there is a Dem party as we know it then). Some were comical and much to be hoped for. Buttegieg: well, we'll see if he can translate his Mayoralty of the vast metropolis of South Bend and his bumbling Cabinet sojourne into a carpetbagger Governorship of Michigan. Should he fail , I would expect him to enter the exclusive category of exalted wronged losers like Beto and Stacey Abrams and continue in the Dem party's good graces (for what its worth).
ReplyDeleteWho else? Oh Rahm Emanuel, who dabbled in Mayoralty of war torn Chicago itself and was unable to work an armistice. And one Stephen Smith is mentioned . He is a stentorially obnoxious sports commentator but when he switches to political commentary he often displays a calm and measured mien of frank advice to his apparent fellow Dems. He appears to be rather easily provoked though and I enthusiastically endorse him if he runs against well spoken JD. Of course Michelle is a perennial favorite and might well be a formidable candidate. Her recent establishment of an online opinion site may advance such a possibility or it may, if she is intemperate, prevent it.
All such speculation is for fun only just now , I think. There is a political lifetime between now and 2028.
Yes, Richie -- what we need is a whole different operating system, because right now all of the big ones are being pushed by evil lefty mega-corporations. I don't trust Google, Apple, or Microsoft as far as I can throw them. Save us, Elon -- you're our only hope!
ReplyDeleteJack, the campaign of violence against Tesla and Teslas may be round one in the terrorist campaign you foresee. Honestly, part of me hopes it will be, because we need the American people to wake up and see leftists for the radicals that they are.
Jack, we have to take Buttigieg seriously as a candidate, I think. He's got the smarts, but I question whether minorities will ever embrace him. Michelle has been a "dream candidate" for some time, but as before I question whether she's as viable as she appears. Personally, I wouldn't advise the Dems to nominate a black woman, because they are (as a group) among the most radical in their party and movement.