When I google the exact URL of this blog, I do not find this blog. I find Pinterest. I find my artwork that people have posted on Pinterest. They have been kind enough to state that this blog is where they found the artwork in the text below the picture of the pin. So when I google quoththeblackbirdbyjill.blogspot.com, I get results leading me to a website that is not the website I just looked up.
You know why this happens? Because Pinterest is a big website and my blog is just a baby website. Pinterest pays Google lots of money to put its results first, even though pinterest has very little to do with my blog. And my blog does not pay any money to anyone, because I use the internet as an outlet for my free speech. Literally.
I was browsing the internet (or "interwebs," as my friend calls it) for a newspaper article. One of my classes requires each student to submit a newspaper article each week. I wanted some kind of cynical pop culture article about media influence, so I googled "social control in the media."(I googled it without quotation marks). You know what the first result was? Facebook. The first result was Facebook. Google had scrambled my words into "social media control," and it was trying to point me to the terms and conditions of being a member of Facebook. Not what I was looking for. Again, I got these results because Facebook pays Google to put their page first. I had a really hard time finding an article that I liked. I think it's because small newspapers that publish interesting articles don't have the throwaway funds to pay Google off.
When Bing became popular, I stood by Google because I had first learned to use the internet with Google. Google was part of my life. But now I feel duped and betrayed. Google, you have lost my faith. I may be shopping for a new search engine. Shopping in a metaphorical sense, because my money will never be going to further my free speech.
You know why this happens? Because Pinterest is a big website and my blog is just a baby website. Pinterest pays Google lots of money to put its results first, even though pinterest has very little to do with my blog. And my blog does not pay any money to anyone, because I use the internet as an outlet for my free speech. Literally.
I was browsing the internet (or "interwebs," as my friend calls it) for a newspaper article. One of my classes requires each student to submit a newspaper article each week. I wanted some kind of cynical pop culture article about media influence, so I googled "social control in the media."(I googled it without quotation marks). You know what the first result was? Facebook. The first result was Facebook. Google had scrambled my words into "social media control," and it was trying to point me to the terms and conditions of being a member of Facebook. Not what I was looking for. Again, I got these results because Facebook pays Google to put their page first. I had a really hard time finding an article that I liked. I think it's because small newspapers that publish interesting articles don't have the throwaway funds to pay Google off.
When Bing became popular, I stood by Google because I had first learned to use the internet with Google. Google was part of my life. But now I feel duped and betrayed. Google, you have lost my faith. I may be shopping for a new search engine. Shopping in a metaphorical sense, because my money will never be going to further my free speech.
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