The Power of Google in Decision 2012

Steven R. Berryman

From The Tentacle of March 9 2012

Superman was replaced by “Apathetic Man” in a recent Frederick News-Post cartoon; in it he tried to budge a stereotypical American voter from his Lazy Boy recliner to get him activated.

The un-budgable American man was depicted as fat and happy, but oblivious, clutching a beer while being willfully spoon-fed by his flat screen TV.

Will this man come out to vote for your next president in November? If he does, just how much of his final opinion will be formed by a heavily biased media, more Internet-centric than ever?

The antics of the search-engine-cum-kingmaker Google may hold a key to planned dirty tricks by the incumbent in the White House.

“Google search” back to a newsy event shortly following the coronation of our current president, Barack Obama, revealed that one of the very first guests invited to the White House was the CEO from Google. The terms and reason for the visit were never released, although the "thank you” for prior campaign support was implicit.

This visit was also to codify a relationship that was intended to be future driven, with Google a direct participant in the first term that was essentially a continuance of the Obama 2008 campaign. Additionally, links between Google and the Secret Service and the National Security Agency, etc, surely were forged.

Political enemies could be easily self-revealed; enemies of the state could be defined by the Internet itself.

Shortly thereafter Oprah Winfrey visited Camp David for several days to meet with our president; that event was never made public.

During an Internet search, key words are entered into a search engine in a specific order; and, in theory, the result is based upon a fair algorithm that allows for most recent information available on said subject, and in the order of previous inquiries as measured by search engine (Google) information stored in databases.

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