Oh man, it actually is a big news day, especially if you're trying to catch up from the weekend like we are with what was going on in China.

It sure looks like it's coming to a head here at some point and it could be, well, not could be, it will be grizzly.

We got to talk a little bit about a ran where they got unrest, the presidential election, impeachment, cranks back up tomorrow and all that sort of stuff.

Yeah, in breaking news, breaking news, Prince Andrew has announced that he's unable to produce earwax back to you.

When do you want to do some more Prince Andrew? You want to do that coming up in a little bit because that's some good stuff right there.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I haven't blinked since the 60s.

She mentioned her lover was blinking. I have not blinked since 1968 because of the fuck that island war.

I never, never blow my nose. I am unable to produce mucus.

More on that in a little bit. I was really interested in this article about Google in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend and where they're trying to out Google as being way more active in pushing the world various directions than they have been letting on.

Right. Not a shock to anyone.

Yeah, I gave that one a quick glance and didn't read the whole thing over the weekend.

Long article. Yeah, long article, but pretty damned interesting.

What we learn clashes, what happens behind the scenes, what Google told the Wall Street Journal clashes with what happens behind the scenes.

Over time, Google has increasingly re-engineered and interfered with search results to a far greater degree than the company and its executives have told anybody.

There's a shock. You mean you're lying to people?

Google's evolving approach makes a shift from its founding philosophy of organizing the world's information to one that is far more active in deciding how that information should appear.

Google has a 90% share of searches on the internet, 90%.

That is pretty dominant. And so they can push a lot of information, a lot of different directions.

And I suppose at some point you start to think when you run Google, why wouldn't we do that?

There are things I care about and think are important. Why wouldn't I influence the world in the ways that I think I can?

More than 100 interviews of the Wall Street Journal's and the Wall Street Journal's own testing of Google search results revealed Google had made algorithmic changes to its search results that favor big business over smaller ones.

Yeah, that one really bothered me.

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