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“Google - the Hidden Superpower”
by Prophecy New Watch
June 20th, 2014

Remember back in the good old days, when Google was just a search engine? Those days are long gone now, and it doesn't look like they're ever coming back.

It was always at least a little unnerving, realizing how good Google's search algorithms were. It was like they knew you. The search results have always been right on target, but they're improving all the time, and as they do, it's just scary. It's as if those giant server farms used by the search engine could anticipate exactly what you were looking for, based on your previous search history and preferences.

As it turns out, that's exactly why the search results are, and continue to be so good. Google has, from day one, collected an enormous amount of information about the people who use its search engine. They collected even more information about you and the people you talk to, and what you talk about if you use their email service, Gmail.

That's good in some ways. The more they know, the better their services get, so we lived with it. Then came Google+, Google's answer to FaceBook and Social Media. Still more information collected about you, your friends, your conversations, and your habits.

Google Earth was next, with a massive global mapping project, which was almost immediately followed by Google Street View, which not only gave Google a living database and high resolution photos of every street, home, and business on the planet, but also gave them street level views of everything and, you guessed it, yet more information about all of them.

After that, Google invaded your TV with a brilliant device called Chromecast that allowed you to watch shows on your hand held, your desktop and/or laptop, and your smart TV, all seamlessly, and all without a hitch. That gave them more information about your tastes and preferences.

Next came the wonders of Google Glass, and the possibility of beaming information straight into your eyeballs every waking hour of every day. Of course hand in hand with that means yet more information about you, your preferences, your friends, where you go, and what you do when you get there.

Now comes the automated vehicle controls that Google is currently road testing. They'll be in your car, driving it for you on auto pilot. And wait, there's more. Recently, Google was were given the authority by the government to become a reseller of electricity, and using the servers that drive their search engine, they can tell you exactly how your power is used. What appliances you've got, how efficiently they run, everything. That's all part of yet another project that you may not have even heard of yet, called Google NEST (the learning Thermostat), and all the things it will tell Google about you.

If that weren't enough, there are all the purchases of robotics factories, modular assembly technologies, and how they'll come to rely on “digital tattoo” technology. Balloons and solar powered drones flying overhead undetected as part of Project Loon, yet another Google initiative, and of course, that's not even mentioning the impressive, globe spanning plan to put a network of 180 low orbit satellites in orbit to bring the internet to the whole planet.

There are entire nations that don't have a hundred and eighty satellites in orbit. In fact, such a vast number of satellites in orbit is one of the hallmarks of a nation with Superpower status. Google has become the world's first corporate superpower.

Love our government or hate it, the one thing you can basically say is that the government tries, however ineptly, to look after the best interests of its citizens. And we can kick them out after four years.

Corporations don't do that, because they don't have citizens. They have shareholders. If you're not one of them, then Google isn't looking after your best interests, by definition, and yet, they have become more pervasive and more invasive than your worst government nightmare. And we have no real way of kicking them out.

Consider that next time you log on.

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