Category: AI

The Google Empire: Why we need more search engines other than Google

The usage of “network” effect to basically dismiss calls for other search engines or any other institution is a common phrase. The people who use it to say there is something transhistorical about Google and that people should be just accept Google. The thing that Google has is the ability to just control the access to information and also installing their search services on every Android device here. Microsoft got in trouble for the same thing, but now they are basically the underdogs here in the search space with Bing, which is good but is basically unable to gain traction because Google keeps people within their systems. This means that people only see Google and not other competitors.

I use Google’s products as they are not incompetent at making email services such as Gmail. However, they are often used as the only service and the “nerds” or power” users are trying to use other products. For example, think about DuckDuckGo or other search engines such as Bing as I mentioned earlier. However, Bing is the only one that is capable of challenging Google. In the early 2010s, its market share was higher than it is now but it is unable to get beyond a small percentage.

We need more search engine choices.

Why is that we allow people to congregate in the “best”

This best is being propped up with all sorts of trickery and manipulations. The most important thing that can happen now is that we need to break up the app stores of both Google and Apple. This duopoly has allowed for the ossification of many aspects of the internet. It has led to the decline in the quality of desktop sites. Previously, desktop sites had all their charm and qualities. Now it the same throughout and it is not interesting now. Even the corporate sites, the front page of a company’s brand have become little more than portals to their social media sites.

We need competition and while we may have alternatives, we do not currently have competition.

Search engines should be an area of competition and growth and not beholden to only one company. The internet is a space without any limit in space only bandwidth. We should have many choices.

Tesla and Waymo wars ramp up in Austin with geofence expansion.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-kicks-robotaxi-geofence-expansion-into-high-gear-austin/

Tesla and Waymo are continuing to increase their presence in the Texas capital which has been a hub for driverless car experimentation. While America is somewhat behind China in the implementation of a revolution in auto mobility, we are seeing some changes here.

What I think will be most important here is that the companies have affordable rides for customers of every stripe in the city and other places. Safety is important but we also need to have people willing to take risks so that we become less reliant on cars and help to improve our urban mobility in this era of change. Hopefully, these rollouts are smooth and we are able to enjoy transport without the baggage that so often made our lives too chaotic. We may have a chance to be more creative and conscious of each other as humans if we can just take our hands off the wheels and enjoy our cities.

DeepSeek facing countrywide bans in 2025: The Internet Cold War?

Deepseek AI made quite a splash when it was released in January. It caused Nasdaq’s stock to drop temporarily but the company has been the target of many western attacks.

The issue with DeepSeek is simply the same thing that ByteDance is facing with TikTok: Its a Chinese app.

For many years, China was able to be in the order, build its economy, while the West was hoping it would become more like them, while Putin’s Russia was the corrupt offshoot which was not following their orders. China has an ancient culture which was making advanced Jade sculptures in its Neolithic cultures, is not going to bend to Europe. China has a sophisticated political culture, and its people have generations of political wisdom unlike the Russians.

DeepSeek has made Generative AI much cheaper. While some were trying to criticize it, the app has gotten millions of users. It has been very successful and it making headways across the AI space.

Deepseek has been facing bans in the bureaucracies of Western European countries. However, I believe that the European countries are doing a disservice to their populations.

Chinese tech is spreading across the globe. Xiaomi has been making many competitive devices and putting European brands such as Philips to shame. I think that DeepSeek will be a viable competitor to Open AI and Elon Musk’s Grok AI.

This Internet Cold War is a consequence of the age of globalization been driven by the West thinking that China would just come into its own cultural sphere.

The main problem is that the West is arrogant and is reliant on its own success in the past. China’s DeepSeek is going to be competitive with Yandex’s Alice and Baidu’s AI. It is going to be sort of a BRICS style AI consortium.