Need to build consent for a war with <Country>? Give me access to the search index, and a few weeks, and it'll be done.
"Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms" (8/2017)
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/04/goog-a04.html
"Google admits to censoring the World Socialist Web Site" (11/2020)
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/04/goog-n04.html
"In a statement before a Senate hearing on October 28, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, admitted that the dominant online search company has censored the World Socialist Web Site.
At the Senate Commerce Committee hearing, when asked by Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah to provide the name of one left-wing “high profile person or entity” that has been censored by Google, Pichai named the WSWS."
"Google refines its search results to curb fake news" (4/2017)
https://www.engadget.com/2017-04-25-google-tweaks-search-to-...
(the comments below this article are funny because it's full of liberal-aligned comments on the disproven Trump-Russia conspiracy theory that is still given life in mainstream outlets)
I trust that a multi-national serving multiple markets is going to give me less nationally biased information than the government of a superpower (with political ambitions that span the globe.)
It's why I generally don't turn to the Voice of America for news.
You think Google search doesn't adjust its search results based on your geography? It absolutely does, and that's just one of hundreds of inputs into its completely inscrutable machine-learning driven tangle of a ranking algorithm. Your trust is very badly misplaced if you think that Google can't be/isn't already corrupted by the corrupt governments it must deal with to do daily business.
