Threehour hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks are attending i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. We had a series of votes on a singapore that just concluded and so welcome. Welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media buys with witnesses from facebook and twitter. As i noted then, in inquiry into big tech censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what were doing here today. Googles control over what people here, watch, read, and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Google domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that, to google, is now a commonplace. With that market power, google can and often does control our discourse. And sometimes Tech Companies talk about their products and the effects of those products as though their forces outside of big text control. As weve heard time and time agai
Practices must take in especially hard look at google. That is what we are doing here today. Googles control over what people here, watch, read and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. The domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that to google is now a commonplace for. With that market power google can and often does control our discourse and sometimes Tech Companies talk about their products and the effect of those reps as we have heard time and time again google Search Engine is not some Supernatural Force it is a Computer Program written and maintained by people in the order that google decides we should do that. Type a few letters into the search bar and google will tell you what you should be looking for. The same is true of the subsidiary youtube. The second most visited webpage in existence. When you search on youtube programs written by people at youtube provide you with the results. When you watch a video a Program
Practices must take in especially hard look at google. That is what we are doing here today. Googles control over what people here, watch, read and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. The domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that to google is now a commonplace for. With that market power google can and often does control our discourse and sometimes Tech Companies talk about their products and the effect of those reps as we have heard time and time again google Search Engine is not some Supernatural Force it is a Computer Program written and maintained by people in the order that google decides we should do that. Type a few letters into the search bar and google will tell you what you should be looking for. The same is true of the subsidiary youtube. The second most visited webpage in existence. When you search on youtube programs written by people at youtube provide you with the results. When you watch a video a Program
Right now. Good morning. Very warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost along with Courtney Reagan in for sara today. Good morning. Very good morning. Its throwback thursday, with courtney here were throwing it back to country hits. Youll have to educate me as we go through. Who is this . This is lady a. , right . Lady antebellum. I guess well have some garth at some point . The only name i know. I hope so. Throwback thursday, and another record high for the markets. Yesterday all three four including the russell 2000 yet again hit record alltime highs. Led once again by the financials. Albeit a slightly broader rally yesterday than the prior day. Renewed hopes of a trump tax plan, strong data which drove up yields, which drove up financials, as i already mentioned, some earnings, the likes of pepsi, Procter Gamble leading the Consumer Sectors higher. The bond proxies like utilities were underperformers. We are called fractionally higher today. Thats a better picture
Know with the tropical systems we get the off and on rain. This is the apalachicola river. You can see the water rushing in in the opposite direction. It was actually rushing in up river and thats what we talk about when we talk about storm surge. This area of florida is extremely vulnerable from apalachicola from the big bend to tampa bay because there are so many bays and so many lagoons and intercoastal waterways and all of the water and the energy from these storms gets pushed up in there and we could see storm surge anywhere from five to nine feet. This is going to go on throughout the night. We are also going to see that tornado risk remain very high winds and even as far inland as tallahassee and into georgia and we will see possible down trees and widespread Power Outages expected and weve already seen a lot of Power Outages here in the florida panhandle, anderson. Its expected to hit florida, but youre saying it could be felt all of the way up to new jersey, is that right . Re