BP buys Google, Yahoo search words to keep people away from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster

Examiner ^ | 6/7/2010 | Maryann Tobin

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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.

[Larousse2]

Google scrubs anything the admn doesn't want reported.

A proper flip-flop: Obama bans new offshore drilling until cause of Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster is known. The ban should be permanent

[cynwoody]

The story is garbage. It implies that Google is allowing BP to bribe it to manipulate its search results. However, all Google is doing is running its standard business model, namely to get well paid to provide advertising precisely targeted based on search terms. Somebody's got to pay to keep those servers running. It might as well be BP.

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.

[Larousse2]

Dems intend to repackage cap and trade in 'BP Spill Bill" so "it will be hard to oppose the Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill

[socialism_stinX]

"If there's ever been a corporatist criminal that ought to be banned from the U.S, it's BP."

Sounds like a good plan to me, but it going to take a new administration in 2013 to make that happen.