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Yesterday, as I was watching news, I saw a brief interview on our national television with our president. He was recommending some crisis measures to all the people from our country. As much as I know that a president has limited powers, compared with the attributions of Parliament or Government, I feel that people will make more “national” choices in 2009. As the crisis will rise the unemployed rate, more and more protective measures will be taken by politicians in order to protect their people.

As I was watching the video, I had this crazy idea. Please note this is only an assumption made by me at 2 a.m. in the morning; I may not have though straight. My idea is that eventually the US government will adopt an intervention politic related to the search engine results for important queries. There are many issues that are spinning around the honesty of companies like Google Inc. Some even argue the fact that this company is under government control since long ago and researchers showed that for some popular queries, the results are sorted in an empiric way. Even so, it is trivial that search engines offer the best legit results on most queries. But with the prospect of economical decline in mind, I must say that the US government may be capable of influncing private companies to watch for its own interest. Let us not forget the acquisition on AEG, which was about to go bankrupt a few months ago. Even if that is not the case with Google or Yahoo, governments have other means and tools which they use to impose their point of view. If that will be the case, the hit will be taken by foreign publishers and web marketers. 

I really hope things to turn out well for all of you. I wish you all a great day and Happy Holidays!

Until next time, yours truly,
Dugu