This Time Magazine article on candidate spending for keywords Google is a bit disconcerting, not because the candidates are showing they understand the internet, but because they are showing they understand not only the internet, but Google, and are still doing nothing to stop the massive copyright infringement and defamation which is the hallmark of Google's web archives.
It's nice to know that the same senators who gave us "Section 230" immunity from defamation for ISPs and search engines, and which allow them immunity under the DMCA even when their mere existence is copyright infringement, know how to spend their money on keyword advertising Looks like the candidates are more concerned with all the traffic Google sends to their websites than protecting the reputations and copyrights of the little guys who built the content for which people search in the first place.
In an ideal world, voters would BOYCOTT any candidate who spends even a cent on keyword advertising without first cleaning up the search engines, but every canddiate is doing it, so they can all turn to each other and give their approval and validation of that tactic. The voters don't care either, except to the extent that the indies who used to produce content could no longer keep doing so becaue the search engines drained their revenue by stealing their copyright. People who lose jobs, friends, lovers, and other survival resources because someone who didn't like them "Googlebombed" them will just have to deal, I guess.
Like the old song used to say: This is not America. At least not anymore. It won't be America again until the voters wise up and take it back, or in other words, NEVER. As of now, it's simply not profitable for the candidates to pay attention to Google's problems, since the voters don't give them a reason to.
Ray Gordon is an internet publisher and write-in candidate for every elected office in the United States. He can be reached at LeModernCaveman@aol.com. Vote Early/Vote Often appears every Friday.
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