To Google, the famous Search Engine and Internet Empire, it is as if the Internet Archive, the biggest collection of digitized books and other digitized documents in the world, simply does not exist — or, to put it more precisely, Google is pretending not to know about Archive.org, the world’s biggest library, overflowing with all kinds of fascinating publications, and is constantly hiding what would be appropriate Archive.org content from its users.

You can use a search for my name, Edmund Schilvold, as an example. If you enter that query into Google, and tell Google to look for matches, you will probably not find so much as a single reference to Archive.org among the results, but if you then let DuckDuckGo, an alternative search engine, carry out the same operation, you will suddenly discover that I have a profile bearing my name there, and that I have uploaded dozens of important documents and virtually my whole archive of photographs, containing thousands of images, to that profile. The difference in terms of publicly displayed results between DuckDuckGo and Google is nothing short of astounding.

By the way, while preparing this post for publication, I typed «Google» into the box for tags, and was offered this one suggestion: «Google always tells the truth». I kid you not — and that statement is a lie, since Google is constantly lying by omission, and not only when it comes to certain website, like Archive.org, but to all kinds of «controversial» and «inconvenient» topics. Wikipedia is engaged in a similar endeavour. It will give you free access to everything, and give you decent information about almost all topics, so as to be able to feed you with lies when it comes to a few topics here and there which the editors deem it vitally important to control.