Category: Robotics

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.

M3GAN- A Machine with Sass and Style

M3GAN in the 1980s with girl in colorful striped T-shirt.
M3GAN in the 1980s Era

There is something about M3GAN which makes her different from other robots. She has style. The image above is an image that I made on ChatGPT and I set my prompt to create an image of a M3GAN in the 1980s. It is clear the M3GAN and her two outfits are incredible pieces of costume design which make her into chilling contrast of charm and violence hidden beneath the skin.

She is a machine with sass and style. In comparison to robots in movies in the 1950s, she is clearly attempting to be a companion to humans. Unlike the 1950s robots who were generally speaking in the realm of the machine, M3GAN hides it under her youthful skin. Her machinery is analogous to the Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that revolutionized the usage of computers. M3GAN and Bruce are clear representations of such a change in the movie.

Bruce is clunky and part of Gemma’s spark of brilliance. However, it is untested and not a machine that is affordable. It represents the early days of Assembly programming, where one literally had to be a computer wizard to understand code. M3GAN with her style and sass is where computers became more ”human” in a sense.

Bruce is the past of computers.

M3GAN is the asethetic of Apple put into a robot. This is one of the reasons why I call it Cyberprep. It is Cyberpunk without the edges.