This is not an article about the NSA or some such spying on every citizen on the planet. This is about search engines and how they gather your data to form a profile on you, but more specifically, how they seem to be incapable of giving you the information you are looking for. Instead, you are inevitably directed towards sites that have paid to be number one on the list and want you to either invest something or buy something from them.
There was a time, long long ago, when academicians decided they wanted to create a universal platform to disseminate and share relevant information between themselves. Hence the birth of the world wide web. Since then, this platform has been abused to share pictures of pussycats and selfies galore. But if a person is in need of some relevant information, zip, zilch, bupkes!
It is practically a given that everybody knows that the Google search engine is in it solely for the money. This is why discerning readers of HacherNoon's articles have switched to Duckduckgo, hoping to get better results. There is one positive side to this and that is that the aforementioned search engine does not store your data and does not keep a profile on you. However, inquiries always seem to lead back to paid-for advertisers, who are more interested in selling you things you do not want or need, instead of providing the goods.
The question that begs to be answered: is no one person or group of persons brave or mad enough to create an algorithm and search engine that disqualifies any paid-for results and focuses solely on getting the user what he or she got online for? Such an intrepid enterprise might only be used to start with by two or three persons who genuinely seek to be enlightened by some sought after wisdom or cold hard facts, but it may grow to an audience of a dozen or more, given a century or two of implementation and maintenance.
For those of you who are inept when it comes to the appreciation of sarcasm, I apologize profusely and promise to never foul up this site with such decrepit nonsense again, at least not until my next article. That is, should this one be accepted by the powers that be.