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The message is that you cannot verify what you are told, you just get what you're given. And what part you are given is an illusion that there are more results. Just trust Google.... what could go wrong?

Let's not forget, that Eric Schmidt said that more than 1 result is a bug.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeIIpLqsOe4

This touches on the scope and hubris of Google and other companies that mediate reality for us. They think they have 'the truth', they know it and will give it to us, and if we refuse their truth, they will attempt to train us until we get it, in schools, the workplace, online, etc.

It's also why they will become irrelevant. If there is nothing organic about their results because the algo filters thoughtcrime ideas out, people will continue to move away. Thank god.

I personally use presearch and feel happier that the results are more natural. But nothing is perfect.




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