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Google's Final Assault on Right-Wing Blogs - Has The Left Won It All?
The Patriot Room ^ | November 28, 2008 | Bill Dupray

Posted on 11/28/2008 7:33:31 AM PST by Bill Dupray

The MSM’s nauseating, pro-Obama bias during the campaign was almost too much to bear. The Libs won, and the un-Fairness Doctrine is on the front burner, once again taking aim at right-wing talk radio.

The fallback position for Conservatives has always been, “well, we always have the right-wing blogs.”

Now it appears that Google is trying to finish off the right-wing blogosphere once and for all.

More . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: atlasshrugs; censor; google; googleconscensor; googlecorrupt; googledems; googlessp; obama; rightwingblogs

1 posted on 11/28/2008 7:33:31 AM PST by Bill Dupray
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To: Bill Dupray

Better for these conservitive blogs to go to other search engines, for example Clusty.


2 posted on 11/28/2008 7:38:14 AM PST by Biggirl (HappyThanksgiving!/BlessedAdventChristianNewYear2008-09=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Biggirl

Dogpile also brings up some good stuff.


3 posted on 11/28/2008 7:39:42 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (History repeats itself because human nature is static.)
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To: Bill Dupray

Take a look at goodsearch.com. You can designate a charity and they’ll get a small kickback for each search. I added and designated my parish.


4 posted on 11/28/2008 7:40:17 AM PST by Jackson57
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To: Bill Dupray

Well, it’s a private business, I guess they can list or not list whatever they want. Why don’t some wealthy conservatives work on opening business to compete with those that want to shut out conservatives. No doubt they would be hugely popular, thence profitable. Look at Fox, they’re not even particularly conservative and they’re eating everyone else’s lunch.


5 posted on 11/28/2008 7:41:29 AM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Biggirl

This sounds ominous. Is Google almost a monopoly?


6 posted on 11/28/2008 7:41:55 AM PST by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My cartridges are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: Bill Dupray
Use Dogpile, Yahoo (??) , anybody but G

already pre-positioned and gathering info every second.

7 posted on 11/28/2008 7:46:21 AM PST by Eagle50AE (Pray for our Armed Forces.)
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To: elcid1970

http://www.dogpile.com

It amalgamates other search engines.......

Check out atlasshrugs goings on with Google search. She’s being driven out of town and needs support...........


8 posted on 11/28/2008 7:46:25 AM PST by combat_boots ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."Aldous Huxley)
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To: Bill Dupray

Depending on google to run your blog is not a good idea. Use some other service instead of blogger or, better yet, get a provider for 2-5 US$ a month and set up your own; nowadays it’s as simple as uploading a directory and following some instructions on your site’s setup area.


9 posted on 11/28/2008 7:46:46 AM PST by Moose Burger
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To: Bill Dupray

I’ve started adding other search engines to my tool bars. I just have no intentions of supporting people and businesses that screw us over.


10 posted on 11/28/2008 7:48:05 AM PST by freemike
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To: A_perfect_lady

Dogpile is good, Yahoo, as well as Clusty. This does not suprise me at all, the libs want to control the communications.


11 posted on 11/28/2008 7:49:49 AM PST by Biggirl (HappyThanksgiving!/BlessedAdventChristianNewYear2008-09=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Bill Dupray
Two can play at this game if Google is so stupid. use Google, but never click on an advertiser link from the Google page. Better yet, use a browser's built in Google search, such as provided with Safari. Google then pays money to the Browser company, such as Apple, for the pass thru.

If Obama is oh so keen about net neutrality, how about search engine neutrality.

12 posted on 11/28/2008 7:52:05 AM PST by 6SJ7 (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: Biggirl

I’m trying those. Never heard of Clusty.


13 posted on 11/28/2008 7:52:23 AM PST by Bill Dupray
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To: Bill Dupray

I use scroogle when I don’t want Google seeing what I am searching.


14 posted on 11/28/2008 7:54:10 AM PST by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: catfish1957
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
15 posted on 11/28/2008 7:55:17 AM PST by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: elcid1970
Is Google almost a monopoly?

No but they are the most profitable.

I haven’t used google for years.

Every time I get new software I use the advanced install method to make sure that I don’t get google toolbar (or other unwanted software) installed on my computer.

AOL is another left wing service that I won’t use or do business with because of their bias against things right wing.

16 posted on 11/28/2008 7:57:16 AM PST by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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To: Bill Dupray

Just added dogpile and did some test searches,, it’s really good! Have it on my toolbar now.


17 posted on 11/28/2008 7:57:18 AM PST by freemike
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To: Bill Dupray

The site doesn’t appear to have many backlinks. It would be helpful to know what the search terms at issue are.


18 posted on 11/28/2008 8:10:23 AM PST by Mojave (http://barackobamajokes.googlepages.com/obama_funny)
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To: Bill Dupray
Actually I get 2290 hits all of which look pertinent to the Donofrio case using a Google search for "08A407". This is the the Donofrio-Wells docket number at the Supreme Court.

Try it:

Google Web Search for 08A407

This basically gets you to the Blogs. The same search in Google News gets you a handful of hits. There is a news blackout on the Birth Certificate issue and I really don't think it is due to Google plotting and scheming. But in ancy case the Bloggers are not buying it. The Bloggers are spreading the word and this story will not die even if the Supremes pass on their December 5th opportunity to do the right thing and protect the U.S. Constitution.

19 posted on 11/28/2008 8:12:12 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: Pontiac

profits??? Where’s the Dem outrage??? Companies aren’t supposed to make profits!


20 posted on 11/28/2008 8:12:46 AM PST by TV Dinners (Hope is not a Strategy)
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To: Bill Dupray

Remember that the Democraps support the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, INCLUDING the First Amendment.

The only caveat to their interpretation of the First Amendment is that it has to be THEIR speech that is free and guaranteed, NOT that of the opposition. Remember the Ditzy Twits??


21 posted on 11/28/2008 8:18:14 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Bill Dupray

I just type’d Atlas Shrugs in the google search, returns her site as the first hit.... what’s the problem here?


22 posted on 11/28/2008 8:19:01 AM PST by TV Dinners (Hope is not a Strategy)
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To: TV Dinners
And when you type in Donofrio Obama the first two results are conservative anti-Obama blogs; http://citizenwells.wordpress.com and http://chicagoray.blogspot.com.
23 posted on 11/28/2008 8:36:59 AM PST by Mojave (http://barackobamajokes.googlepages.com/obama_funny)
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To: TV Dinners

The problem is that the average Joe, including myself before this thread, don’t know about atlas shrugs. Try googling “obama birth certificate” and all you get are links about fact check and a judge throwing out the birth certificate case.
Google is undisputedly the most popular search engine around. I don’t think suggesting other search engines will make much of a dent. I personally use others but most people I know go straight to Google or Yahoo for searches. I think they should be sued and sued and sued until they stop this crap. Evidence would seem very easy to gather but the deep pockets and legal fees may be formidable.


24 posted on 11/28/2008 8:47:43 AM PST by traintown57
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To: Still Thinking
Well, it’s a private business, I guess they can list or not list whatever they want.

No, it's a public corporation with a fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder value. That does not include alienating half your customer base, and the same can be said for all the major media corps. Conservative shareholders should file class action suits against every one of them.

As far as specifically Google, they're longtime liberals, but it may well be that this kind of crap is being done outside company policy by one or two moonbats. It would be worth a campaign of complaints to company executives. I have accomplished some cool things in the past by going straight to the top.

MM (in TX)

25 posted on 11/28/2008 8:58:19 AM PST by MississippiMan
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To: Biggirl

We are really going to have to build our own network. I mean... increasingly, WE are the subversives, the underground.


26 posted on 11/28/2008 8:59:53 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (History repeats itself because human nature is static.)
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To: catfish1957

Thank You !


27 posted on 11/28/2008 9:01:56 AM PST by Eagle50AE (Pray for our Armed Forces.)
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To: MississippiMan

Well, it’s still a private business in that it’s owned by a bunch of individuals. If they’re all on board with this (I’ll grant you that’s unlikely) so be it.


28 posted on 11/28/2008 9:40:05 AM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: freemike

I have had good luck with IX metasearch:

http://www.ixquick.com/


29 posted on 11/28/2008 11:14:02 AM PST by freespirited (Honk to indict the MSM for treason.)
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To: Bill Dupray

marker


30 posted on 12/01/2008 12:38:08 AM PST by BonRad (As Rome goes so goes the world)
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To: 6SJ7
Two can play at this game if Google is so stupid. use Google, but never click on an advertiser link from the Google page. Better yet, use a browser's built in Google search, such as provided with Safari. Google then pays money to the Browser company, such as Apple, for the pass thru.

that's what I do too...
The first listing of a search is often a paid listing, but the second one is often the same website but not a paid listing. I normally ignore the right side paid listings too.

31 posted on 12/02/2008 9:00:32 AM PST by smokingfrog (If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer. - Ronald Reagan)
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