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I went to nutch's site and read their description. I like the point the developers made regarding how their open system wouldn't include bias--or, at least, the biases would be publicly available.
To me, this isn't a case of government dependency. Although, I don't quite understand why that is even used in a negative fashion. The idea of government, to me, is that it should be responsive to and protective of the people's needs.
So dependency seems like an odd notion to disparage. We should be able to use collective, political action to effect change or regulate those who refuse to regulate themselves (not that Google isn't doing that already; rather, if the operators decide not to).
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