seekanddestroy - 8:49 pm on Jun 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

Democracy and Liberty and the bleeding heart liberals (thank God for them with regard to this type of subject) will not let the web be searched in some enforced way of any kind - only commerce will guide this in democratic countries.

Why is the USA the world superpower?

Answer: The USA was born largely out of the previous world superpower the UK with it's Industrial Revolution knowledge (largely a commerce thing with military offshoots), then went and got approximately 1.5 times as wealthy on average per capita head as the UK, with four times as many people (I wont go into the reasons how and why). My simple calculations make the USA potentially six times as wealthy as the UK on this basic principle (ie if we all were taxed at the same rate and exchange rates were real equivalences), this is not the case, but it's easy to see the economic potential differences without the degree or study required to give a more considered answer.

Why is freedom of search undiminished by the powers that be?

Answer: For the same reason that in a democratic and 'free' country you can walk down the road and choose where you want to go and who you want to talk to and where you want to buy within what the law allows. Once surfers get wind of being led they will leave that search engine by the droves in favour of the one which lets them be free.

It ain't gonna happen guys and girls, search will be free of major restriction and democratic so long as the countries in which those SE businesses operate reamin free and democratic.

End of story.