Search Engine Censorship

Google's aim has always been to ensure that the user has the most genuine experience and receives the best results possible and this is why, since day one, the public has trusted Google and everything it says and does entirely. It has divided opinion many times with its views and actions and is set to do it again following its latest claims.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has stated that freedom of information is at a threat thanks largely to Governments and even social networking giant Facebook who it claims is restricting what is used and what is available.

The beauty of the internet lies in its ability to provide anything and everything; an open platform that the entire world has access too; it is by far the greatest invention of our time but today it seems that the threats it is facing are very real.

An increasing number of countries are going against the internet and the freedom it brings; the most memorable example being China whose internet restrictions are the strongest, with only a portion of the World Wide Web available to the nation's population.

The Google founders have expressed their fear at not only the governmental censorship but also the closed environment that is being implemented by social network Facebook with Brin going so far as to state that had Facebook been around those many years ago, creating Google would have been impossible. With such a bitter rivalry between the two we can't help but wonder if this is a fact or mere exaggeration?

The entire foundation of Google lies on freedom of information which is why governments who are attempting to monitor the web, control and even shut down specific websites is creating a very real and very risky threat to not only the way we use the internet but the way we view the world.

There is no doubt that the internet is powerful but has it become so powerful and open that it requires censorship?

…I doubt any of us will ever agree.