egomaniac - 4:09 pm on Aug 31, 2002 (gmt 0)

>He said that a non-commercial search engine administered by a consortium of librarians, answerable to an international governing body was a good idea for the future.

This is a very bad idea.

The costs of this would be huge for one or more of three reasons. Either 1) we would have to spend a massive sum of taxpayer money to out-engineer Google on Search technology, 2) we would have to spend huge taxpayer dollars on a staff of international "librarians", or 3) we would have to spend massive tapxpayer advertising dollars to keep an inferior search engine in the public awareness.

Without spending on #1, then it would be an inferior engine and #3 would be assured. #2 is not only expensive, but it would be extremely biased towards the politics of the governing body charged with running it, because they would be the employers of the so-called "librarians".

This is a pipe-dream typical of liberal elitists who live in the clouds "Let's fix the unfair, undemocratic search of Google with an unbaised world government run search engine". Such an idea is B.S. and it won't work because the idea is fundamentally flawed. Google works because it is like capitalism (see my earlier post in this thread). And capitalism works because it leverages true human nature.