And quite honestly, Google is completely scamming anyone who pays for my views. They know damn well I don’t see ads, let alone click on them (except through automated means a la ad nauseam).

That's the most comical thing I've read today. The government controlling search and maps is the last thing anyone should ever want. Not to mention they'll innovate as quickly as they innovate the DMV; no incentive therefore no innovation. Public utilities such as water, gas, and electricity are natural monopolies and priced on a per usage basis, so you'll be paying per search query and map lookup making it a more expensive and worse experience.

Why is this any worse than Google? There are obvious perverse incentives against providing a decent search tool on every page by design.

- Easier surveillance of citizens

- Easier to censor anti-government speech

- Easier to alter search results for more government propaganda

- Easier to make correlations between search history and crimes for when it's convenient to prosecutors

- Lower quality of service because the government does not have consumer's best-interest in mind

I don't know about you but I prefer to not live in George Orwell's 1984 dystopian world