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The Evilization of Google–and What to Do About It

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created: July 27, 2025, 8:25 p.m. | updated: July 27, 2025, 10:35 p.m.

But consider, suppose you do a Google search for images about some topic. Thus, with one of my cherished websites, Google updates in 2014 and 2017 reduced my business by 50 percent or more. Make Google’s Search Index a Public Commons—Mandated Public Access to Core InfrastructureEpstein suggests that Google’s search index—its database of the web—should be declared a public commons, allowing competitors to build their own search engines using that data. Unadapted search would thus set a baseline for the rest of Google search. To the degree that Google is egregious in its bias, it would be appropriate to enforce a warning label at the top of every Google search page, such as, “WARNING: Google search is biased.

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