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Is Google Dropping Conservative Sites They Disagree With?
Search Engine Guide ^ | May 24, 2006 | By Jennifer Laycock -

Posted on 12/24/2007 12:12:19 AM PST by restornu

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1 posted on 12/24/2007 12:12:22 AM PST by restornu
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I don’t know if others have had this experience but I cannot find bio’s on News media or even resume be they reports, newscaster or as to where they gone to school what they like to eat, previous articles reported etc.

Is there a neutral or conservative search engine out there or are we at the mercy of spoil liberal brats!


2 posted on 12/24/2007 12:18:17 AM PST by restornu (Harry Reid is going to get Daschled! You're on your own, Harry!)
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To: restornu
The problem is probably what was stated in the post: With the Little Green Footballs blog, it turned out that there were actually some duplicate content issues at play,

If you have duplicate content, then you will get marked down in the rankings - this is why sites prefer you have use only excerpts, because I've seen cases where the originating site has been ranked lower than sites posting content from the originating site.

People forget something - Google makes money from advertising. Having some kind of political agenda being played out at Google.com works directly against that, and it also screws with their algorithms and pageranking formulas. If they can't serve up relevant content, they can't serve up relevant ads, and they can't make a buttload of money.
3 posted on 12/24/2007 12:23:01 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: af_vet_rr

The last three paragraphs are worth the read of this article along.


4 posted on 12/24/2007 12:28:08 AM PST by healy61
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5 posted on 12/24/2007 12:31:17 AM PST by restornu (Harry Reid is going to get Daschled! You're on your own, Harry!)
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To: af_vet_rr

All I am saying there was a time you could look up someone bio or at least get a resume now that isn’t even available.

You don’t get advetizing $$ looking up you are me on google to see where we been and posted, yet we are there!

af_vet_rr
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enUS227US228&q=af%5fvet%5frr

for the left to check us out!


6 posted on 12/24/2007 12:36:07 AM PST by restornu (Harry Reid is going to get Daschled! You're on your own, Harry!)
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To: healy61

Google is well within their rights to deliver whatever type of content they’d like.

I agree but why are you and I being listed to where we been or posted?

healy61
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enUS227US228&q=healy61


7 posted on 12/24/2007 12:39:53 AM PST by restornu (Harry Reid is going to get Daschled! You're on your own, Harry!)
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To: restornu
I couldn't parse that ... sorry.
8 posted on 12/24/2007 12:49:45 AM PST by ThePythonicCow (The Greens and Reds steal in fear of freedom and capitalism; Fear arising from a lack of Faith.)
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To: ThePythonicCow
Conservatives just have to be smarter searchers on Google.

That said, I sometimes can't Google-up an FR article I just read last week. (Sorry, but I find most alternate search engines clunky—including FR's).

Anyone know a better way to Google "free-republic"? (Other than adding "series", "yitbos", "ibz" and "hugh"). ;-)

9 posted on 12/24/2007 1:05:49 AM PST by Does so (...against all enemies, DOMESTIC and foreign...)
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To: restornu
Jim Robinson can have FreeRepublic.com removed from Google if he so desires, he can also change the FR robots.txt file to stop Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc., from crawling Free Republic.

However, it's in JR's best interest to have Free Republic crawled, as many FReepers have found FR through Google, etc.
10 posted on 12/24/2007 1:06:04 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: ThePythonicCow

Meaning there was a was a time if you google say Dan Rather you could get a bio years ago and during the Rather flap all you could get was a resume!

To me Bio’s start with your childhood on up and resume sort of one’s Ed, hobbies and work history!

Now you can get a sanitized version but in the past it there was nothing, I could not find out if he had children or was married etc it just wasn’t there.

Over the years he must have gotten into spats and nothing showed of his disputes with those he annoyed


11 posted on 12/24/2007 1:23:33 AM PST by restornu (Harry Reid is going to get Daschled! You're on your own, Harry!)
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To: Does so
Anyone know a better way to Google "free-republic"? (Other than adding "series", "yitbos", "ibz" and "hugh"). ;-)

The keyword searchs within FR work well. That's why it's important to get the correct key words in and not just use them as another way to anonymously comment. That said, if you go to Google and search for whatever it is you want to search for on FR and append the search with "site:freerepublic.com" Google will limit the hits you get to just FR.

For instance "'fred thompson' site:freerepublic.com" gives this result.

12 posted on 12/24/2007 1:27:12 AM PST by FreedomCalls (Texas: "We close at five.")
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To: restornu

I think it’s time for an “Search Engine anti-censoship law” (making it illegal to boot any sites from its search engine keyword search). Google is playing monopoly in the Search Engine industry, and is beyond its limits that we can stand. We must stop this leftist crap braiwashing people around the world.


13 posted on 12/24/2007 1:28:24 AM PST by Wiz
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if not, they go to the back of the bus of ‘ next pages’


14 posted on 12/24/2007 1:29:17 AM PST by sure_fine (• " not one to over kill the thought process " •)
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To: restornu

Nah - libs don’t blank things they disagree with....


15 posted on 12/24/2007 1:34:19 AM PST by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President!)
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To: restornu
Difficulty getting past the screening process doesn't necessarily mean that Google dislikes conservative blogs, it may simply mean that they're trying to screen all content to make sure that they are letting in only quality news sources. There's certainly nothing wrong with that.

Well, no, probably not. Kinda depends on who gets to define "quality news sources," though, dunnit? I mean, what with Owlgork sitting on Google's board and all, don't be surprised if, say, Bjorn Lomborg doesn't get the same algore-ithmic treatment that, oh, I dunno, "IPCC" gets.

16 posted on 12/24/2007 1:37:22 AM PST by Tenniel2 (The Clinton era: jackboots, plane crashes, murders - and those were the good days. (Hat tip to Bray))
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To: restornu; All
I never use Google anymore.

I use PageBull which displays a picture of all the web pages it retrieves.

17 posted on 12/24/2007 1:49:00 AM PST by Allan (*-O)):~{>)
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To: Does so
Yes - the "site:" prefix. For example, find your FR home page and posts here with a Google search for:
site:freerepublic.com "Does so"
Find references to Google on FreeRepublic.com (first hit being this present thread) with:
site:freerepublic.com google

18 posted on 12/24/2007 1:54:45 AM PST by ThePythonicCow (The Greens and Reds steal in fear of freedom and capitalism; Fear arising from a lack of Faith.)
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To: Wiz
<sarcasm>

Yeah - that's the ticket.

We don't trust Google to be fair, so pass a law, so that the Federal Government will keep Google and the other search engines on the up and up.

We all know that the Federal Government (Congress and bureaucracy) is fair and balanced and unbaised and only looking out for the best interests of us private citizens, unlike private enterprise.

</sarcasm>

No ... the Feds have an even greater monopoly running than Google, so should be entrusted even less with yet more power.

19 posted on 12/24/2007 2:02:18 AM PST by ThePythonicCow (The Greens and Reds steal in fear of freedom and capitalism; Fear arising from a lack of Faith.)
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To: ThePythonicCow

So, you like to support the Stalinists and leftists rather than being a patriot? The Democratic Underground will probably like to invite a democrat supporter like you.


20 posted on 12/24/2007 2:09:24 AM PST by Wiz
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