Google edits out "Obama bowing" search

google.com | 4.6.2009 | TexasNative2000

[TexasNative2000]

I decided to check Google to see how much reporting had taken place on Obama's bow to the Saudi King.

Google has a feature that will pre-fill a drop-down menu based on what you type. For example, when I typed the letters O and b, it started listing various Obama topics. As I typed out O-b-a-m-a b-o-w, the drop down menu listed "Obama bowling". I continued to spell out the word "bowing" and the menu selection remained "Obama bowling".

So I clicked on my original selection "Obama bowing" and clicked "Images". There is not a single image of Obama bowing to the Saudi King on Google. There are various photos of Obama bowing his head to pray, along with other miscellaneous photos of Obama.

Then I clicked on "Web" to see what stories were posted about this episode. The only stories listed by Google are all from blogs, which means one of two things - either there are NO stories from any news organization other than blogs, or Google is not listing them.

[TexasNative2000]

Who needs state-sponsored censorship when the news and information outlets do it for you?

[libbylu]

It was still on ytube last night.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I still don’t understand why it wasn’t on drudge, who only cares about the almighty click.

[sten]

try "obama bow saudi"

youtube video popped up on the first page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed0Qp2vxkSQ

[avacado]

Try Google images ‘obama bowing saudi’ and you’ll get plenty of pics.

[Elpasser]

You are flat wrong. Try googling “Obama bows Saudi” I did, and found it immediately.

[fishtank]

Microsoft

http://www.live.com

http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=obama%20bowing%20saudi&FORM=BILH

[OpusatFR]

Try Obama grovelling, grovels

[devere]

I just entered obama bowing to saudi king in google and got an appropriate response.

[libbylu]

I got it on google. msnbc has an article.

[WVKayaker]

"googled "obama bow", first pic..

I'm a Mac!

[Big_Monkey]

Works for me. The drop-downs work as well.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I just tried it & got 957,000 hits (for images alone). When I used “obama bowing Saudi king” (without the quotes) I got 63,700 hits for images.

[HomersNose]

I tried obama bow....it worked for me!

[cll]

I tried “obama kisses saudi ass” and I got tons of returns also.

[silverleaf]

use goodsearch to do your searches

guck foogle

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I repeated your experiment, same results, except images #12 and #13 were indeed 0 bowing to Faud when I did an image search.

It may not be such a common search phrase, yet.

[leenie312]

I searched Obama bowing and got quite a few results

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Yes. “obama bowing saudi “brings up plenty of hits on Dogpile. Although Dogpile searches several different search engines, including Google, I never go to Google. Only Dogpile.

[DoughtyOne]

http://images.smh.com.au/2009/04/03/448297/obamabow420-420x0.jpg

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/04/president-of-the-united-states-bows-to-foreign-king/

http://worldnetdaily.com/images/misc/bowone.jpg