Understanding America’s Info-Data Opportunity - 5/1/25

Google has acquired far more information both public and private and has invented more ways (200+) to use it than anyone in history.

• Information is power and in Google’s case it’s the power to influence and control everything the Internet touches.

• Google’s market power is unchecked, unaccountable, & underestimated. It’s the Internet’s lone superpower & the new master of the digital universe.

• Google’s centralization of power is unprecedented and unchecked. Google’s evolved from an information servant to master, and from working for users to, to making users work for them.

• In 1983, Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the WorldWideWeb in 1983, a public and decentralized system to enable universal access to information online.

• In 1996 Larry Page invented what is now Google’s search engine, a privately-controlled and hyper-centralized, universal system to enable access to information Google determines is useful.

Extremely Rare! The last time was 46 BC, when The Great Egyptian Library of Alexandria had many tens of thousands of papyrus scrolls burned in a fire.

What huge historical analogous change is this opportunity most like?

• It is analogous to the 1996 Telecommunications Act that changed the U.S. communications sector from telecom/cable monopolies to competition, “to promote competition, reduce regulation, & encourage new technologies.

• A Federal Court’s Google monopoly ruling & remedy are not legislation or regulation, but antitrust law enforcement, judicial adjudication, and asset disgorgement for ill-gotten Info-Data business gains via unlawful practices.

• The court remedy will likely require Google to syndicate/license its search information & search text-ad data to its competitors at no or marginal cost for ~10 years to “to remove barriers of entry, pry open the monopolized markets to competition, deprive Google of the fruits of its violations by providing competitors access to scale dependent data inputs for both search & ads.”

Google wants to swap its search monopoly to be America’s AI Monopoly!

• Judge Mehta will break up Google’s Info-Data monopoly for U.S. IT competition.

• A lax Google antitrust remedy won’t happen because it would disastrously cement Google’s current Info-Data monopoly by default, which in turn would practically ensure Google to become America’s AI monopoly by antitrust default.

• Only Google has unique control of exponentially more Info-Data than any AI entity, and all U.S. AI entities combined by far!

If enabled, who wins the AI race & monopolizes Info-Data AI training? Google!

Google is the only digital information entity that for three decades has collected and controlled by far the most universal, best organized and structured, Internet information and data to train any AI better, faster, and more comprehensively.

‘Info-Data’ is a new term for a universal hoard of all information & data: e.g., all collected information: knowledge, facts, findings, & intelligence; and all types of data: factual information; and metadata: data providing info about other data.

• “Info-Data power dominates, & Info-Data monopoly/monopsony power dominates absolutely.” Lord Acton wisdom modernized.

• Google is a court ruled-monopoly maintaining its search & text-ad monopolies, that warrants a 2025 break-up remedy requiring Google to license and syndicate much of Google’s omnifarious search index information and text-ad data, to competitors to restore information/data market competition & Info-Data innovation.

1. The Who: ProvenPrecursor 2.0: About this Substack - 4/22/25

2. The What: America’s Info-Data Prosperity Opportunity - 4/23/25

3. The Why: Federal Judge Mehta ruling Google a monopoly.|286 pages, 8-5-24 -- Read page 9-46, and 214-258

4. The How: FYI the proposed Google antitrust remedies below:

5. The Executive Summary of Plaintiffs Revised proposed Final Judgement. 27 pages, 3-7-25 Read Page 11-12 Restoring competition through Syndication/Data Access.

6. The Plaintiff’s Revised Proposed Final Judgement 50 pages, 3-7-25 -- Read page 6-7 on Search Index & User-side Data; and pages 14-20 for more details.

7. Defendant Google LLC’S Proposed Final Judgement 12 pages 3-7-25 -- Read page 2-7 for Google LLC’s wishful self-serving remedy.

1. “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful…” Google

2. “Search is critical. If you are not found, the rest cannot follow.” Google Exec Santiago de la Mora NYT 8-09

3. “We are very early in the total information we have within Google.” Google Chairman Schmidt FT 5-07

4. “Anything that you see in the real world needs to be in our database” Google Map’s Evgeny Morozov Slate 5-13

5. “Our goal is to put together a sort of digital mirror of the world.” Google Maps Exec Dan Sieberg Telegraph 9-13

6. “Our map… is the world’s map. … Maps are an expression of culture.” Google Earth’s Rebecca Moore SEL 6-12.

7. “Ultimately our goal at Google is to have the strongest advertising network and all the world’s information.” Google Chairman Eric Schmidt ZDNet 8-06

8. “Our goal is to put computing everywhere.” Google SVP Sundar Pichai Quartz 7-13

9. “Our goal with Android is to reach everyone.” Google Chairman Eric Schmidt ATD 4-13.

10. “There is a real desire for YouTube to be a global classroom and a global town square, not just a global living room.” Google Exec Hunter Walk, per Bloomberg 10-12.

11. “In genomics, there's a massive amount of information in which you can look for patterns and develop insights.” Google Ventures Head, Bill Maris. WSJ 10-12

12. "Our model is just better… Based on that, we should have 100% share“ Google Chairman Eric Schmidt 12-09

13. “Google’s “goal is to change the world, and monetization is a technique to do that.” Eric Schmidt Wired 12-08

14. "The entire industry is organized around this mobile transition and who gets there first is going to be both the economic winner and the influence winner," Google Chairman Schmidt CNBC 4-14

1. “It’s obvious what our strategy should be. It’s to work on problems on a scale no one else can.” Sergey Brin, Wired 6-09.

2. “I think what we’re about is using large-scale kind of technology.” Google co-founder Larry Page Wired 4-12

3. “Launch first, correct later." Google Chairman Eric Schmidt FT 6-10.

4. "Platforms are where the aggregated value occurs… The way the industry creates wealth is creating platforms.” Google Chairman Eric Schmidt ZDNet 6-13.

5. “We are in the information business.” Google Chairman Eric Schmidt FT 6-10.

6. "Scale is the key. We just have so much scale in terms of the data we can bring to bear." Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Bloomberg 10-09.

7. "We don't have better algorithms than everyone else; we just have more data." Google’s Chief Scientist Peter Norvig ECPM Blog 3-10

8. “We start by cloning what we have until we master the new medium.” Google’s Brad Abrams Forbes 11-12

9. “Anything that benefits the Internet ecosystem will benefit Google.” Google’s Peter Greenberger Philly.com 3-10

10. "Selling ads doesn't generate only profits; it also generates torrents of data about users' tastes and habits...“ Google-YouTube Chief, Susan Wojcicki Wired 5-09.

11. "The power of individual targeting—the technology will be so good it will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them.“ Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, to WSJ, 8-14-10

12. “Never delete anything, always use data – it’s what Google does.” Google Cloud Platform Director Tom Kershaw, NYT 3-15

The next post will flag my initial take on the likely winners and losers from this Info-Data Opportunity. Thank you.