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The worst part is the corporatized results. For example, if you search for a movie, google search returns the reviews of corporate newspapers first and in the results it also lists the corporate newspapers news reviews first so that you need to scroll down to see useful aggregators and go to the 2nd or 3rd page to see pertinent forum reviews or independent reviews.

Google properties have been skewing to less relevant news and corporate results ( search, news, maps and even youtube ).

It's a shell of it's former useful self. Hopefully ddg and other search providers step up their game to put pressure on google.

Google is just another example of a monopoly gone bad.

The same goes for all media. Who is funding them, who is running them and what are their goals.

This is why it's important to view a wide range of sources, but who has time for that really.

> Although I will always be curious why countries are letting those small, insignificant islands and countries manage all this wealth

Those small, insignificant islands and countries are current or former british or european colonies. And considering they are primarily located in the caribbean, the chances of them being successfully attacked is zero - good luck going up against the might of the US Navy.

> How do you wire all this money to such a small place

Whether it's $10 or $1000000, it's just a number (a few bytes) on transfer or just a few more digits on a check.

> and how can they trust so few people to hide so much money?

It's easier to trust a few rather than the many.