Fuck You, Google

I hate Google. I hate what they do, I hate the monopoly, I hate that they own my searches. I also know there’s no real escape—Yahoo’s just as greedy, Bing is Microsoft’s version of the same evil, Lycos is dead. So I sit at my Mac and throw my most private thoughts into their servers anyway, every single day. The contradiction is complete and there’s nothing I can do about it.

Except maybe Wikia Search. It’s launching soon, and the early alpha is already out there. It’s fast. It’s simple. And the thing that actually matters: it’s open. The search algorithm isn’t some proprietary black box. You can see how it thinks. That’s radical compared to everything else out there.

I don’t know if it’ll survive. I don’t know if it’ll matter. But I like the thought of a world where nobody remembers what googling even meant. That feels possible now.