Search engine

A search engine retrieves information on the Internet for users. Typically a user types in key words and the search engine will display a list of links containing those terms. The search engine may list links based on algorithms designed to give priority to relevancy, or popularity, or fees paid by sites to the search engine company. Generally the methods used by search engines are proprietary and not completely known.

Search Engines

AltaVista was a popular early search engine in 1995, but its slow speed caused it to lose out to Google, which would retrieve information almost instantaneously based on presorted techniques. In the December 2008 Nielsen Online rankings, Google had over 62% of the search traffic on the Internet, and Yahoo! is a distant second. Google, Yahoo and AOL all showed good year-on-year growth, with Microsoft's MSN/Live Search being the biggest loser. Other new search engines have been developed as well, such as Microsoft's Bing (the alternative to MSN/Live Search), and another web site called Duck Duck Go. Each search engines aims to compete against the more commonly used information retrieval sites, and in doing so, they each typically have their own unique driver or capability that others do not offer.

Quotes on Police State Search Engine Surveillance

• "The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed 'subversive of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the Constitution affords no protection against such invasions of individual security?"
  • Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928).

See Also

• Duck Duck Go - Privacy-oriented Search Engine
• Google, Yahoo and Bing

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• Censorship
• Tools of censorship
• Censorability
• Fairness Doctrine
• Liberal censorship
• Evolutionist censorship
• Media censorship

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• The Perpetual War on Drugs, War on Terror and the Police state
• Wikileaks and Julian Assange - Australian leftist hacker
• Bradley Manning - Homosexual Hacker Traitor of State secrets
• Social media: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Youtube, Yahoo
• NSA and other Intelligence agency mass surveillance: PRISM, Wiretap - Roving wiretap
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
• Police, RICO and Asset forfeiture
• Mililtarization of police: SWAT and No-knock raids
• Drug trafficking of the Drug cartels, Gangs, Drug dealers, Hollywood values - Fashion industry values - Public school values - Professor values
• Big government ObamaCare-Common Core-Social Security Welfare state leads to Nanny state, leads to Police state: Globalist-Statist-Socialist-National Socialist-Communist
• Liberal totalitarianism

Contrast with:

• Tails (operating system) (Linux-based) and Tor (anonymity network)-I2P Firefox browser HTTPS Everywhere encryption for Internet anonymity to protect unalienable Fifth Amendment - Fourth Amendment Right to Privacy (Internet privacy) and Second Amendment - First Amendment rights against unconstitutional Gun control - Internet censorship Big government Police state, hackers, and "all enemies, foreign and domestic" of American liberty.
• Encryption: Cryptography-Cryptanalysis-Cryptology-Data encryption-Public-key encryption-Steganography
• Conservative values and Libertarian American values - Small town values of Limited government and liberty
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Prism-break.org - Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora.
• Open source Free software not Microsoft-Apple-Google-Android
• Duck Duck Go search engine instead of Google, Yahoo and Bing
• Hologram of Liberty - The Constitution's Shocking Alliance With Big Government by Boston T. Party - Kenneth W. Royce
• One Nation, Under Surveillance - Privacy From the Watchful Eye by Boston T. Party
• Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986
• Privacy Act of 1974
• Edward J. Snowden revelations of unconstitutional domestic spying on law-abiding American citizens