Ted Gioia – Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades: “…Here are the things missing from the original search engines.
- They didn’t practice 24/7 surveillance of users.
- They didn’t sell user’s private information.
- They didn’t fill up search results with garbage in order to collect placement fees.
- They didn’t manipulate users—prodding them to use ancillary services.
- They didn’t make it difficult (or sometimes impossible) to remove the search engine from your computer.
- They didn’t force you to log in and create a profile—so that they could have more private info to sell to third parties.
- They didn’t put ‘cookies’ on your computer so that your online movements could be more easily monetized.
- They didn’t work with authoritarian regimes and government censors so that political agendas could be embedded into your search results.
- They didn’t lobby Congress to weaken copyright protections, block antitrust prosecution, avoid transparency, and disempower users.
- They didn’t kiss the asses of foreign dictators in order to maintain overseas distribution.
- They didn’t even sell ads…”
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