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Google Buries Drunk Baucus Story
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| December 29, 2009
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Posted on 12/29/2009 8:25:17 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Uncle Miltie
Google Results 1 - 10 of about 818,000 for baucus drunk. (0.09 seconds) I think you missed my point...
I did not say that they censored all of the search results, merely that the AJAX 'suggest' feature was spiked not to show "Drunk". In my screenshot taken yesterday, you can clearly see that it appeared at the top of the list. Today it is gone.
SCREENSHOT FROM YESTERDAY:
However, regarding your point... it is interesting to note that the VERY FIRST RESULT is a lame article immediately written to defend Baucus in an obscure blog at the San Francisco Chronicle.
Baucus Coverup - 1st result on Google now
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posted on
12/29/2009 9:02:48 AM PST
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Bon mots
To: Bon mots
use “Bing”...owned by Newscorp
To: Bon mots
I don’t think you understand how the Google “suggestions” box works. If news outlets aren’t reporting on it in large numbers, and users aren’t searching for it in large numbers, then it falls out of use and out of the box.
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posted on
12/29/2009 9:14:50 AM PST
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ctdonath2
(Virtue is to be apologized for. Depravity commands respect. - Galt)
To: Bon mots
yesterday, you can clearly see that it appeared at the top of the list. Today it is gone. Google is a very dynamic system. What happened yesterday may not happen today.
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posted on
12/29/2009 9:16:15 AM PST
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ctdonath2
(Virtue is to be apologized for. Depravity commands respect. - Galt)
To: Bon mots
“baucus drunk” is number 1 on Bing
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12/29/2009 9:23:53 AM PST
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caver
(Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
To: ctdonath2
Google is a very dynamic system. What happened yesterday may not happen today. I would think that "Baucus Drunk" would still be one of the top Baucus searches, today.
To: ctdonath2
I dont think you understand how the Google suggestions box works. If news outlets arent reporting on it in large numbers, and users arent searching for it in large numbers, then it falls out of use and out of the box. Actually, I do understand that. But the term COULD NOT fall out of the suggestion box COMPLETELY in 24 hours. You cannot tell me in all seriousness that there are now more people searching for "Bush Drunk" than the current news story "Baucus Drunk".
You can test the Google Suggest AJAX for a number of terms and see for yourself. It was obvious by the growing number of hits in Google News as well... this was clearly manipulated manually to skew the results... something which is not done for Republicans.
Test it with Palin, Bush or any Republican...
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posted on
12/29/2009 11:43:03 AM PST
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Bon mots
To: FreeReign; ctdonath2
Google is a very dynamic system. What happened yesterday may not happen today.
I would think that "Baucus Drunk" would still be one of the top Baucus searches, today. Bush Drunk, Palin Drunk, almost any Republican drunk gets hits...
There is no way this could go from a top hit yesterday - one which appeared after typing just the first three letters of Baucus's name... to not even being on the list today. No way without a manual adjustment.
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12/29/2009 11:45:15 AM PST
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Bon mots
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01/01/2010 1:32:12 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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