by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Success leads to different things. One disturbing trend is that it leads to suspicion.<\/strong><\/p>\n Why is it that (2) often follows (1)?<\/p>\n Google offers a free<\/em> service to Internet users. Come to our site and search the Internet<\/em>. I find nothing on Google.com that tells people that the results of their free<\/em> searches are guaranteed to be impartial, objective, no-agenda-attached, or anything of the sort. I find nothing on the computers of Americans that forces them to use Google’s free<\/em> service. There are other free<\/em> Internet search engines available. Some of those search engines owned<\/em> the market before Google appeared.<\/p>\n Google succeeded by giving away a service that people wanted and like. Google also found a way to make money at the same time. They have hired thousands of Americans at high salaries. They have hired thousands of people in other countries as well. They are a successful multi-national company based in America. Sounds good to me.<\/p>\n On a personal level, have you ever wondered why some person you know succeeded far more than me? I have. I write books, but none have sold millions of copies (none have sold tens of thousands of copies). I write short stories. To date, I have earned a total of $5.93 from fifty short stories I wrote (not $5.93 from each story, $5.93 total).<\/p>\n Why is it that other writers make more money than me? Would the FTC investigate these all-too-successful writers for me? They must be doing something worthy of a regulator’s attention.<\/p>\n Then again, maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Success leads to different things. One disturbing trend is that it leads to suspicion. Google is a rather successful business. The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google. Why is it that (2) often follows (1)? Google offers a free service to Internet users. Come to our site and search the Internet. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,85,5],"tags":[151,202,128],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-success","category-writing","tag-government","tag-success","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n