Google: Manipulating Search Engine Results

Finally, Google has admitted to doing what critics have claimed all along. The company manipulates search engine results based upon editorial criteria.

For years Google has claimed that its search engine results were totally impartial and 'computer-generated.'

According to Andrew Orlowsk at 'The Register,' Google's objectivity is giving way to admitted deference to arbitrary, editorial decisions based upon the views of a special unit the company has set up to determine content priority in its search engine results.

And thus,

Google is moving into new territory: not only making arbitrary, editorial choices - really no different to Fox News, say, or any other media organization. It's now in the business of validating and manufacturing consent: not only reporting what people say, but how you should think.

Google has further admitted that when it comes to page rank, some 'votes' (clicks) are worth more than others...meaning, of course, Google is now going to weight votes based upon how relevant or 'worthy' a story or post on a blog may be.

The problem with all of this is that in the anticipated demise of print media, news organizations are increasingly relying on Google for stories that they simply rewrite and post on their websites.

Google will thus be the centralized power through which all news, stories, and opinion will pass.

Google Admits Suppressing Free Speech

In a startling revelation, Google has admitted to its own form of 'censorship'--the suppression of free speech on the Internet.

The New York Times--not exactly a bastion of right-wing 'nutcases'--reported that Google has engaged in massive manipulation of information and quotes Google's own Nicole Wong as proof.

Wong has been given broad powers within Google to monitor its search engine, its service for blogs entitled 'Blogger,' and YouTube (owned by Google) in order to determined which user-generated controversial material stays up and which is taken down.

Thus, Wong and her colleagues in the monitoring division of Google have more power and control over what information is allowed on the Internet than any other group of persons in the world.

And, as expected, when political ideology gets into the mix, decisions are made that suppress the free dissemination of information, such as with Michelle Malkin's short YouTube production on extremist Islam.

Malkin's video was banned by YouTube for supposed 'offensive' content, yet Google allowed graphic Jihadist videos to remain on the Internet.

Thus, it is not difficult to understand nor accept as the truth the fact that Google singled out Atlas Shrugs for content suppression. This is precisely the type of thing Google does, and it has openly admitted doing it.

Google Blacklists Geller's Atlas Shrugs

In the spirit of the free exchange of information, free speech, and freedom of the press, it is necessary that I inform you, the reader, of the latest attempts by Google to silence politically incorrect dissent.

Pamela Geller's Atlas Shrugs has been blacklisted by Google.

Until a few days ago, if one entered into the Google search engine the subject matter of one of Geller's stories, Atlas Shrugs would be at the very top of the list of blogs that had done work on that particular subject.

As one of the top blogs in the nation, Atlas Shrugs would get thousands of visits through Google. Many of these readers had never heard of Geller or Atlas Shrugs, but because the topic they placed in the Google search engine would likely yield a result with Atlas Shrugs at the top of the list, Geller would receive many new readers.

Suddenly and without explanation or forewarning, Google blocked access to Atlas Shrugs when one is searching for a blog post on a particular topic of interest.

Readers can still find Atlas on Google if they type in 'Atlas Shrugs' or 'Pamela Geller,' but new readers would have no way of knowing to type this.

As most serious bloggers know, new readers are often found by being at the top or near the top of search engine results when a reader types in a topic on which we have written.

For example, when one types 'Second Amendment' in the Google search bar, one is likely to find blogs such as The War on Guns, Say Uncle, Snow Flakes in Hell, or hopefully The Liberty Sphere, among others. This is one way we gain new readers.

These new readers had never heard of our blogs before, but because our blogs were at or near the top of the search engine results when one wanted to read something on the Second Amendment, we gained new readers.

But if Google blacklists you as they did Geller, your blog would be automatically blocked from readers searching for information on the Second Amendment.

This is a travesty of liberty, free speech, the free exchange of information, and the freedom of the press. Geller believes that Google's action is politically motivated due to her relentless pursuit and publication of information on Barack Obama that the mainstream media refused to cover.

And, as you will see when you read her post on this matter, Google has been very cozy with Obama. And we all know what Obama thinks about news sources that place him in a negative light.

We also know what Google will do to free speech if money is at stake, such as with their deal with the ChiComs to squelch the free exchange of information via the Internet in exchange for being allowed to do business in China.

I encourage you to click on the link provided in the 2nd paragraph above, read Geller's full account of the events in question, and then take appropriate action as you feel inclined.

And It Just So Happens Google Endorses Obama...

In light of the post below on Barack Obama's plan to nationalize or 'socialize' the Internet industry, THIS INFO is nothing less than ominous.

The Commie-loving, free-speech-squelching Google, which agreed to limit free speech on the Internet in exchange for doing business with the ChiComs, has endorsed Barack Obama.

Obama and Google. Add the term 'fascist' to the many ways we can describe Barack Obama.

OUTRAGE! GOOGLE BLOCKS WAR ON GUNS!

David Codrea reports that Google has blocked all further posting to his blog, War on Guns. This is nothing short of an outrage.

Read David's sidebar comments on the situation, in the red font, by clicking HERE.