Posted on 08/19/2012 10:15:22 PM PDT by waus
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.
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.
vitamin c 90 million hits
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.
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/
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”?
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/
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.
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.
Vitamin D = (50 personal results. 72,500,000 other results)
No results if you use Google Shopping for vitamin D, not the regular search.
Meanwhile, there’s almost 400 google shopping hits for Vitameatavegamin... funny that.
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.
bookmark.
I stopped using Google and Yahoo months ago... I’m using Bing, Amazon, and Ebay now with no problemo!
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.
Use those same three all the time myself.....
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.
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.
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