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WebFusion - 3:22 pm on Aug 16, 2005 (gmt 0)


Sorry donīt know much about the 1st Amendment. But we are witnessing Google CONTROLING information not ORGANIZING it any more. Through filters, algos, updates, tweaking, reshuffling etc..
Does the 1st Amendment calls for that?

The only way that arguement could even remotely be valid is if the information was not acessable anyway else. Can a site be found by ANOTHER search engine? Can someone type an URL into their browser to find it? If so, Google's not CONTROLLING anything - they're simply using their "judgement" (however flawed it may be) to evaluate what it considers the importance of that information.


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