The Massive Problem of Google Search and The Need for Paid Search Engines
Executive Summary
- Google’s search is monopolistic, highly censored, politically biased, and controlled by the government and advertising money.
- In this article, I will discuss the reasons for stopping using Google and moving towards paid search.
Introduction
The Google algorithm does not have parameters that allow users to emphasize or deemphasize different types of sites. This is something that would be of great assistance to users, but which Google has never offered.
About My History Investigating Google Search
Over the course of several years I have been concerned about the dominance of Google in search and have written several articles on the problems with Google’s (the holding company for Google is called Alphabet) business model and the search results I receive from Google. One example of one of these articles is Why Is There No Preference Adjustment in Google?
Recently, I investigated Google’s results. Google gets 98% of its revenue from advertising, and their results are increasingly censored and controlled by advertising. As they are so dominant in Internet searches, governments also pressure them to censor results. Google is clearly in support of the DNC and adjusts its search results to get its preferred party elected. It also opens its servers to government surveillance entities like law enforcement, the FBI and NSA. As Google is deeply intertwined with the CIA and NSA (as is Facebook and other Big Tech platforms),, they do the same thing internationally. Not many people know that Google began using funding from US intelligence organizations in the first place — with these intelligence operations desiring a surveillance platform.
Google’s Corrupt Search Results
When you type in a search query into Google, you get the top results connected to whoever is paying them the most money. They say they are providing the most relevant results, but testing by me and many others shows this can’t possibly be true. Furthermore, Google doesn’t disclose any of this, and many other search engines, while better than Google, often use some of Google’s search results. They are wholly corrupt and completely dominant in web search, influencing other search engines with their results. In testing Bing, which is Microsoft’s search engine, I found Google to be far more censored than Bing (that is, smaller nonstatus quotes and corrupt web sources were significantly suppressed by Google versus Bing). What is amazing about this is that Microsoft, along with Oracle, Facebook, and SAP, has always set the bottom of ethics in the tech industry. So, the fact that Google is far below what Satan on Earth is, in effect, in Microsoft, is quite a statement.
Google’s Corruption Has Grown Every Year They Have Been in Existence
Every year that Google has been in existence, it has become corrupt. Here is a perfect example. Most people reading this article will have a Gmail account. Think back to early GMail. If you remember, GMail made a name by having an excellent spam filter. However, as the years passed, more spam “got through.”
How did GMail’s spam filter switch from being the best out there to one of the worst? The answer is that Google wanted to monetize GMail, so they adjusted their spam filter to allow much more spam through.
Now I don’t so much read my GMail as “scan it” to see which of the many emails is something I am interested in reading. This is the same thing Google did with its search engine. Google used to have an excellent search engine. I first discovered them around 1998. However, to increasingly monetize the search engine, it is far better not to use Google.
The Lack of General Understanding of This Important Topic of Advertising Supported Search Versus Paid Search
I have had several conversations with librarians on this topic. They appeared clueless that their library has Google as the default search engine on all its computers. They did not understand the implications of Google’s advertising driving the search results. Several librarians zoned out on me during these conversations.
How Google Sells Users to Advertizers
The major problem is that Google makes around $300, selling every user to advertisers. As the user pays nothing, they have no ability to put pressure on Google to put the user’s interests before the advertisers’ interests or the interests of governments that want Google to push their PR.
What Google is Versus What it Says It Is
Google is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They are pretending to offer an innocuous information search to users to “help them.” However in reality they are a tool for surveillance (hence why most searches are performed on computers logged into Google services like GMail or where the user is logged into another site through Google within the same browser), for censorship and for directing unsuspecting users to the most corrupt internet sources. Google receives around $270 billion a year from advertizers, but still presents the facia that it exists to serve users. Google lies about how it is a pure advertising company by saying the majority of its revenue comes from advertising, when in fact, 98% of its revenue comes from advertising.
Getting Away from Google With Paid Search
I have experimented with several paid search engines and used to tout Neeva until it went out of business for lack of people willing to pay for a search engine that represents the interests of users. Recently I found another paid search which is not as good as Neeva was but is still a very good option. This is called Kagi. I thought you may not know how Google is manipulating your search results and though I would suggest it to anyone interested in far better and less financially biased and censored search.
Experience With Kagi
As I write this, I have been using Kagi for a week and a half, and I find searching now much more fulfilling and easier than it was using even less corrupt search engines than Google, like Ghostery or DuckDuckGo.
The Cost of Kagi
Here is Kagi’s pricing.
The Cost Benefit of Kagi
It is easily worth the monthly or yearly cost.
For a year of getting advertizing-free searches with the ability to promote or demote search sources, in addition to other features, Kagi search is probably the best value of any purchase I will make during this year. The search engine and browser are among the most important things anyone uses on a daily basis.
My Lack of Interaction With or Financial Bias in Favor of Kagi
I have never contacted Kagi, and Kagi has not paid me to write this article. It is the opposite I pay Kagi to use both their search engine and their browser — which is another topic. Everything I know about Kagi is from reading their website and using their search engine and browser which is called Orion and not due to any interaction with Kagi.
I can think of ways that Kagi can be better. I would like it if I could set the parameters to searches more generally than just blocking or deemphasizing or emphasizing sources. Sources can be categorized by different criteria, and those criteria can then be set as parameters that can be adjusted. This is the approach that Neeva used and it was very powerful. You set it one time, and then just use the search engine after that point.
About The Orion Browser
Orion has extremely efficient memory management, and I have migrated a number of my tabs from Ghostery (a great browser but far more consumptive of memory) to Orion. I am running two versions of Orion presently, Orion and Orion + and I am very impressed with their browser. So, finding Kagi has been a big win for me as I was exposed not only to their search engine but also to their browser. This combination has improved my research and computer usage.
My View on The Importance of Paid Search
I think paid search is an important topic that I am happy to evangelize for paid search and Kagi anytime. I would promote other paid search options (as I said, I was a big advocate for Neeva before they shut their search engine down — and I lost a great deal of research productivity when Neeva shut down), but there aren’t many paid search offerings I can name as the percentage of people who will pay for a search engine is small.
Also Using Yandex
Another search engine I tested and found to be very good was Yandex, a Russian company. Yandex is not paid search but its search results are in cases where the topic is hotly contested significantly better than Kagi’s results. See these results from Kagi for the search “vaccination.”
The first search result (actually multiple results) from Kagi is the CDC. The CDC is a highly corrupt entity infested with undisclosed pharmaceutical interests and has repeatedly been caught hiding and rigging data. Its objective is to promote fear of pandemics and vaccines, as it is essentially a marketing front for the vaccine industry. The CDC has a lot of credentialed people working there; however, the CDC is yet another example that credentials and knowledge cannot make up for financial conflicts.
I don’t consider the CDC to be a reliable source of information.
Their second result is The WHO.
The WHO is yet another highly corrupt health entity whose second largest funder is The Bill Gates Foundation. I don’t care what Bill Gates has to say on any topic, nor what the WHO says on any topic, and unless I am writing an article about medical corruption, I don’t want to see them in my search results. However, I could block these sources from future search results. I went on to block the following sources.
- Johns Hopkins
- The FDA
- Heathline
- NPR
- The Cleveland Clinic
- The NHS
- Vaccines.gov
- The Mayo Clinic
Now I won’t see their sites in any search results in the future within Kagi.
What Sites Provide Customizability of the Search Results
Notice that this ability to adjust the search results does not exist in any of the search engines that are not paid search. It appears that if you want to have adjustability, only paid search will offer it to you. Neeva had the best parameter adjustment to search results I have ever seen. I was able to de-emphasize commercial results in search results as one example. There were other parameters I changed as well making the search engine customized for my interests.
Searching in Yandex
Yandex also lists the WHO very high up in its results, but some sources also question vaccines. Yandex’s search results are far less hierarchical than those from Kagi and allow for different views.
Yandex is based in Russia, a country with very restricted freedom of speech. However, Yandex’s search engine allows for more freedom of speech and more views that oppose the official view than any of the search engines that I tested that are based out of the US. This illustrates that the US dedication to freedom of speech is wavering, and this is what also happens when corporations infest any platform. Microsoft of Pfizer have no interest in freedom of speech – they certainly don’t want you to hear the speech of their competitors or their critics.
When Totalitarian Systems Present Themselves as the Consensus
The government and the politically correct believe there is only one view, and everyone must adhere to this single view. This is a totalitarian view that masquerades as being the “official view.” However, Orwell’s 1984 often presents something as a consensus, which is only the consensus because other views have been censored or suppressed. In many circles, anyone who disagrees with the orthodoxy is called a conspiracy theory or “far right-wing” racist, sexist, etc.
Censorship in the US
Here, we have examples of multiple politicians contradicting the First Amendment. Even in the country with the strongest freedom of speech laws ever created, there is still an unending attempt to restrict speech. The current line is that in order to defend democracy, we need to shrink freedom of speech. Once speech is sufficiently restricted, then we will have a perfect democracy.
Internet Censorship in Brazil
Brazil has censored X/Twitter in Brazil. This prevents Brazilians from accessing this website unless they use a VPN — however Brazil has made it illegal to access X/Twitter by a VPN.
This is explained in the following quotation from the article Brazil X Ban VPN Legal Tech Implications.
Moraes ruled that using “technological subterfuges” to bypass the blocking of X is prohibited, making VPN-enabled access to X in Brazil punishable by a fine of 50,000 Brazilian reais ($8,900) per day.
Some VPN operators agree that tracing Brazilians who access X via VPNs would be a challenge for local enforcement.
“At the moment, it seems difficult to imagine how the Brazilian government’s proposed fines on people using VPNs to access X could be implemented from a technical standpoint,” a spokesperson from the VPN provider Surfshark told Cointelegraph.
Short Discussion on The Opposing Sides of Censorship
This is an excellent display of the two opposing sides on the nature of censorship. The term “hate speech” has been created to categorize whatever the opponent of that speech wants to be censored.
The Censorship Playbook
Those who disagree with the orthodoxy are hit with personal attacks. This is the same behind blasphemy laws. I am the proud recipient of a letter from the Government of Pakistan that stated an article I wrote on Islam “offended all of Pakistan and their cherished belief in Islam.” I think the idea of the letter was that I would fly to Pakistan to go through their court system.
The problem?
I did blaspheme against Islam, and the second problem is that in Pakistan, the penalty for blasphemy is death. Islam has historically never allowed its ideas to be questioned and threatens those who do so with death. This is a primary reason Islam has succeeded in spreading itself. The Government of Pakistan has a lot in common with search engines that believe they have the right to dictate what you think and control what you see and read.
The mind controllers, along with those who work in marketing or PR departments, believe in supporting the party line and also support covering up contradictions or inconsistencies in the favored hypothesis instead of having them exposed and discussed. Being more educated does not appear to mitigate this behavioral pattern, as some of the most educated people also favor this single-view philosophy.
I like Yandex’s results on controversial topics, but Kagi is a much slicker product. and easier to use and to read. However, I still plan to use Yandex to see their results occasionally. I would prefer if any search engine I use is paid and would like it if Yandex offered a paid search option. The reason is I want to be the one paying because I want to be the customer of the search engine rather than the sources that are listed by the search engine being the customer.
Conclusion
This is one of the big problems of our time. Media and search engines offer their service free of charge only to be funded by to large corrupt companies without telling the reader or user. In addition to their corrupt search engine and business model, Google has done enormous damage to the media because they have pulled advertising from media (still a problem, but having the advertising so concentrated at Google has only made it worse). Google tops it all off by stating that they support media, when in fact they have hollowed out media. Google has its targets on all sites, not just media sites with its synopsis “AI.” Google now creates synopses of websites with “AI” to deny sites it used to give traffic that important traffic. Google’s “AI” is a form of legitimized plagiarism. They say they are “training” their “AI” on data — however, this is plagiarism. If the software does it — it is not called plagiarism. No one could have anticipated how evil Google would eventually become.
Google’s entire relationship with its search users is based upon a lie — which I have discussed already, and Google’s relationship with websites is also based upon a lie. Google started out saying they were just going to direct users to sources that were relevant to them. They decried that Yahoo directed users to Yahoo content at the time. However, now, Google is stealing the IP of websites and presenting them as their own. So they have radically changed the arrangement and agreement with websites.