A friend of mine sent me a link to this video in an email and I was quite surprised at what I saw. I don't know about you, but I always thought that when I typed a query into a search engine like Google, I would get results simply from what I searched for. Well, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Imagine my surprise when I found out that websites are filtering search results and links displayed by who I am, where I am and what my views might happen to be. In other words, the results are tailored or skewed to suit the person doing the search.

Take a few minutes and watch this video:



So much for the pure, unhindered flow of information, huh?

You might think that this is no big deal at first, but think about it. Who is going to decide what results we see? Who is going to control the flow of information? Does it maybe make you think of the movie 1984 and "big brother is watching"? Are we going to be "spoon fed" only the information that somebody decides is okay for us to see?

What makes this a little more scary is the fact that they are doing this and nobody really realizes it because they don't know what they aren't being allowed to see. I don't mean to be overly paranoid except for the fact that there are people in our present administration who have openly stated their desire to control the flow of information in society.

Just a little FYI for you all out there...