Forget about Gulliver.... it's the Lilliputians we should worry about

All this worry over "Big Brother."
It's the little brothers that may have equal covert impact on social discourse. That's my take on the fact that the Silicon Valley Truthiness Bureau (SVTB) is no longer searchable on Google's regular search. Pity.

And to think....Mountain View, the home and heart of Google, is overwhelmingly in support of Measure A. A curious thing.

Yes, it's true. This blog was searchable in Google's "regular" search for several days, and has since suddenly "vanished" from their regular index. Not a trace in regular results, even though other postings on October 21 in other blogs (blog search "October 21" + blogspot), both newly established and older, are indexed in both 1) the popular regular search, as well as 2) the less-used blog search. The SVTB was available, but now can only be searched on the blog feature. Not as easily accessible, but hey.

I don't think any of us really understand the power that Google has over our information, what we are exposed to, how we are led to think, how an information giant could advance its own agendas, whether as a "Big Brother" company, or as a band of "little brothers" who have the means to manipulate the conversation. Nope, I don't think any of us fully realize the implications of that kind of power.

And their "Ethics Committee?" Just try to find a way to contact them. Go ahead, try.

"Do no evil?" How would we ever know?