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Google Shopping blocks all vitamins and natural products -glitch or deliberate censorship?
Natural News ^ | 8-19-12 | Ethan A. Huff

Posted on 08/19/2012 10:15:22 PM PDT by waus

If you live in the U.S. and try to use Google Shopping to buy vitamins, supplements, personal care products, and even many health foods, your search queries will now turn up blank, as Google has apparently blocked access to all vitamins and natural products for American customers.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: agenda21; bigbrother; censorship; google; googleshopping; health; healthnazis; nwo; populationcontrol; shopping; supplements; vitamins
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Just tried to search for vitamin C and nothing came up.

But, if a 13 year-old girl wanted to shop for a place to get an abortion without parental consent, I'm sure, thousands of results would come up.

1 posted on 08/19/2012 10:15:35 PM PDT by waus
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What?
I just did a search for natural vitamins (vitamins+ natural) and there are over 280K hits, with fifteen natural online vitamin shops popping up.
How are you searching?
Oh and a link to this story about how you can’t search for natural vitamins.


2 posted on 08/19/2012 10:30:02 PM PDT by roylene (Salvation the great Gift of Grace.)
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To: waus

vitamin c 90 million hits


3 posted on 08/19/2012 10:31:00 PM PDT by roylene (Salvation the great Gift of Grace.)
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To: roylene

He means in the Shopping search, on google. Nothing turns up there. Google is changing the nature of their shopping search, however. I dont know if this is related.


4 posted on 08/19/2012 10:35:56 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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To: waus

Google Shopping, which I used to frequent has gone to hell in a handbasket. I don’t know what they were thinking (they were thinking $$$), but they’ve ruined their own shopping search from their site.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/01/google-shopping-to-change-formats-charge-merchants/


5 posted on 08/19/2012 10:36:58 PM PDT by sockmonkey (She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick)
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To: Paradox

Well, you got me because I don’t know what that means “shopping search”.
I just put vitamins + natural in the search block and got all those online shops popping up.
Could you explain “shopping search”?


6 posted on 08/19/2012 10:40:07 PM PDT by roylene (Salvation the great Gift of Grace.)
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Also, banned all guns and ammo..No more Bud’s Guns or Midway USA.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/29/google-bans-gun-sales-on-us-shopping-center/


7 posted on 08/19/2012 10:41:58 PM PDT by sockmonkey (She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick)
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To: roylene
Google has, or used to have, a "shopping" search which would go out and find people or companies selling the item you searched for.

It is listed on the left hand side of a completed regular search, click on "Shopping", and you will see the results, usually with prices.

8 posted on 08/19/2012 10:44:25 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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To: roylene

http://www.google.com/shopping?hl=en&tab=wf

I, typed in Vitamin C & it was also nada, zip, zero..


9 posted on 08/19/2012 10:45:41 PM PDT by sockmonkey (She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick)
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To: roylene

On http://google.com/shopping/, you can find tens of thousands of results for abortion, condoms, gay sex, but if you type ‘centrum’, a very popular multi-vitamin supplement, you get zero results.

This is something that has been going on since at least July 9th of this year. If you’re accessing shopping from another country, you get the normal results as you’d expect, though localized for that country (IE: Centrum now returns 140 results, from French companies selling the product, if you do this search on google.fr/shopping/)

I’ve yet to see an explanation why this has become a banned category from Google.


10 posted on 08/19/2012 10:47:16 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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Vitamin D = (50 personal results. 72,500,000 other results)


11 posted on 08/19/2012 10:47:39 PM PDT by MaxMax
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No results if you use Google Shopping for vitamin D, not the regular search.


12 posted on 08/19/2012 10:51:38 PM PDT by waus (FUBO UFCMF, Just in case I stuttered, FUBO)
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Meanwhile, there’s almost 400 google shopping hits for Vitameatavegamin... funny that.


13 posted on 08/19/2012 10:52:44 PM PDT by Random_User_250 ("Democracy is indispensable to socialism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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Oddly enough, you still get google ads for vitamins if you do a regular search for vitamin supplements. But if you try a shopping search... nothing.


14 posted on 08/19/2012 10:58:50 PM PDT by Random_User_250 ("Democracy is indispensable to socialism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: waus

bookmark.


15 posted on 08/19/2012 10:59:35 PM PDT by dadfly
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I stopped using Google and Yahoo months ago... I’m using Bing, Amazon, and Ebay now with no problemo!


16 posted on 08/19/2012 11:01:19 PM PDT by Errant
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Google Shopping blocks all vitamins and natural products -glitch or deliberate censorship?

Google is so fantastically, unbelieveably, incredibly evil, that Satan's doctors ban him from accessing it, because he ends up laughing so hard, and so long, that he starts to go into convulsions and they have to resuscitate him.

17 posted on 08/19/2012 11:03:38 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Errant

Use those same three all the time myself.....


18 posted on 08/20/2012 12:01:39 AM PDT by colinhester
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To: roylene

On the “shopping” section of Google — 0 Hits for Vitamin C.

On the general web search for Vitamin C on Google — a lot of hits.


19 posted on 08/20/2012 1:03:08 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: waus

Google Shopping now only displays shopping results from sites that have PAID Google to include them in their Shopping results.

OTOH, try individual shopping sites, such as Next-Tag, Shopzilla, etc; or just do a regular Google Web search for the item, being as specific as possible.

Eventually, either retailers will cave, and pay to have their sites included; or Google will cave and go back to the old (or semblance thereof) Shopping format.


20 posted on 08/20/2012 1:15:51 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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