Posted on 06/07/2010 4:27:05 PM PDT by mojitojoe
In their most tenacious effort to control the spin on the worst oil spill disaster in the history, BP has purchased top internet search engine words so they can re-direct people away from real news on the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
BP spokesman Toby Odone confirmed to ABC News that the oil giant had in fact bought internet search terms. So now when someone searches the words oil spill, on the internet, the top link will re-direct them to BPs official company website.
This would not be the first time that BP has tried to control information to protect the companys public image.
Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010, BP executives quickly underestimated the size of the disastrous oil spill. Some suggest they did it to avoid costly EPA per-gallon spill fines. The less oil spilled, the lower the fines.
A month into the spill, the public learned through independent science, that the spill was in fact a million gallon a day gusher. BP got caught in their own lie when the used a syphon pipe in one of the broken riser pipes and proudly proclaimed that they were capturing 5,000 barrels of oil a day. With the oil obviously still gushing, they had to up their spill rate to explain the reported discrepancy in their earlier estimates.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
No surprise. I watched in horror as google “disappear” half a million hits on image searches for ‘obama birth certificate’ in mid-July 2008.
They have long since declared their allegiance to the truth.
Google's oil spill SERP does have a link to www.BP.com/OilSpillNews at the top, but it is clearly labeled as a sponsored link
, not a search result.
Sounds like a good plan to me, but it going to take a new administration in 2013 to make that happen.
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