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The Australian government has shown that people want big, bold action against the tech companies.
With the stroke of a pen, the Biden administration can bring competition to the search engine market.
Opening up Google s web index is how the United States can catch up in the international race to regulate Google.
Zack Maril is the founder of the Knuckleheads Club, an organization dedicated to opening up Google s web index.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
It was unthinkable even just a few months ago, but Google and Facebook have decisively lost their fight with the Australian government over its proposed News Media Bargaining Code. The Australian government is getting exactly what it wanted, and this won t be lost on governments and regulators around the world.
professional regulation in software engineering, if for no other reason than to ensure that Terminator and Black Mirror don t become a reality.
Engineers have professional associations. That never stopped a single engineer from building weapons of mass destruction. Lawyers are subject to perhaps the most intricate body of professional regulations and so lawyers rarely ever do anything that might hurt society at large. Professional organizations exist to benefit their members. They don t exist to prevent social ills. That is the role of government. A bar association for software engineers won t prevent Skynet. Government regulations setting limits on the powers attached to AI might.
Google dominates advertising through unrivalled 500bn web pages
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2 The offices of Google in Manhattan. The US media giant is accused of illegally abusing its monopoly over technology that delivers ads online, through an unrivalled index of at least 500 billion web pages. (Photo: New York Times)
OAKLAND: California: In 2000, just two years after it was founded, Google reached a milestone that would lay the foundation for its dominance over the next 20 years: It became the world’s largest search engine, with an index of more than 1 billion web pages.
The rest of the internet never caught up, and Google’s index just kept on getting bigger.
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500 billion pages and counting: How Google rules the web
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The Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Photo / Laura Morton, The New York Times
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By: Daisuke Wakabayashi In 2000, just two years after it was founded, Google reached a milestone that would lay the foundation for its dominance over the next 20 years: it became the world s largest search engine, with an index of more than 1 billion web pages.
The rest of the internet never caught up, and Google s index just kept on getting bigger. Today, it is somewhere between 500 billion and 600 billion web pages, according to estimates.