Posted on 12/24/2007 12:12:19 AM PST by restornu
Thanks I added the site.
Wow, you’re advocating a federal law that would give the federal government oversight powers on internet content, and when someone points out how dumb that idea is, -you- call -them- a “Stalinist” and a “leftist”?
You can’t be for real, can you?
Qwinn
The market will ultimately solve this problem. If Google is playing dirty with its search engine, someone else will set up a search capability that does play fair and users will migrate to that site.
They did not have all this when Rahter was going throuh his flap in 2004 around the election.
its nice if only one could remember it!
I don’t use google much these days. I suspect that any such business that is agenda driven will ultimately tend to encourage a block of users to go elsewhere.
I have always used altavista.com It seems to have all the search power of google.
I don’t think it’s biased one way or the other, but I feel sure about Google’s left lean.
I’ve had a couple of rows with Google over the word “Beer” in some of my ads. They’d pull them and tell me they did not allow the advertising of alcohol. Since the ads were for a freaking book with the word “Beer” in the title, and I showed them a dozen examples of other ads they accepted, they finally allowed the ads.
They also took one of my books, still in print, scanned it and opened it up to the public for viewing. With a couple of attempts, you could have gleaned a lot of the information in the book that you were supposed to BUY. I threatened and they pulled the book.
I’m more and more convinced that Google is dangerous because of their accumulation of customer information. They know more about you than you do and do what they want with it.
What about the satellite they own and mini cams all over the place
It's also not unheard of for individuals within companies to make this sort of decision without sanction from management. If you have been in the industry long enough you will know of what I speak...it's not just politics, it can be anything they think the company ought to be doing or they take exception to. The common element seems to be highly intelligent people with no common sense who are great at what they do but d*s*t WRT actual reality.
Which reminds me - there are some influential programmers working on Google search algorithms and news who are Muslim, proud of it, and certain of the influence of religion in everyday life. I speak from personal knowledge, I'm not sure you would find this on the web via Google (they might have appeared in some of the Google Tech videos).
Funny thing, where I wrote "actual reality" above, I really said "consensual reality" in my stream of consciousness. I have the same tendency, too - I had to censor a bunch of too-specific trivia out of this post.
There are plenty of good search engines that aren’t blatantly leftist. I generally use clusty.com
You betcha,This way google contols whats out there to see.We need to find other avenues.
Note that Safari has Google as its default browser. I think it's time for me to switch back to Firefox.
Word of mouth will also take care of that.I never miss a chance to talk about FR to friends and people I meet who are conservative.
Really ... we cannot rescue our liberty from further decline into leftist, socialist, Marxist, Stalinist tyranny by enacting more federal laws that purport to mandate liberty.
We can only lose our liberty a little faster that way.
True patriots support appropriate power in their government, and appropriate constraints on that power. The federal government has grown increasingly too powerful, and too little constrained, the last century or two, especially in and increasingly over the last eighty years.
Inviting Washington, D.C. to protect you from Google is like inviting the Mafia into your home, to protect you from the juvenile delinquent next door.
We live in the greatest nation, great in power and freedom, in human history. I support our troops, our liberty and our continued economic and military might. But I don't go looking for excuses to give the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. more power over our day to day lives or businesses. They have shown themselves chronically unable to avoid the temptation to abuse that power.
Thanks, Qwinn.
That’s so cool. I did my website and it brought it up the way you said it would.
that was part of the intro to this artlcie which we know LGF is still with us,
It trying to find no so obvious stuff until you need it and can’t get a lead and when you experience this often you start to wonder if it is google.
No one search engine should have such monopoly because you can find any Negativity on the RIGHT you want, but the LEFT seems to be very protected.
Unless the LEFT iS it being used as a distraction
Spears, Hilton etc.
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