Google washes search results

The Register ^ | 012/14/2008 | andrew orlowski

[slnk_rules]

Google seeks to buy out, consolidate, and rule the information world. The fact they have a leftist agenda is really the only thing that makes them evil.

Could not agree more. They are a wonderfully innovative and savvy company. I do think that because they are an INFORMATION company, they are blind to the how poisonous an ideological agenda will actually be to them. It is like viewership of the network news. Everyone laughs at it because they don't trust it. Google, with all its top notch stuff, could be a glitzy PRAVDA in a few years (although PRAVDA is actually a fairly decent news org nowadays).

[AmericanMade1776]

Do any of those search engines have a News Homepage. Where you just read the headlines before searching?

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Ok, guys...based on NOT being a lefty and being technologically superior...which is the best search engine?

[null and void]

Yeah. I’m firmly in the Mac camp.

[IrishCatholic]

bookmark for later

[AmericanMade1776]

I think I am going to use AOL.com for my homepage news instead of Yahoo for awhile.

[Always Right]

The problem with dogpile, is that it is just a regergitation of yahoo and google results. I think I like the results better from clusty.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Try cuil.com (pronounced cool)

It was started by the original creator of Googles algorithm and is someday supposed to rival Google.

[SouthTexas]

Well DUH, grasp of the obvious.

Haven’t used Google in over a year.

[Nateman]

Google will find out , just as the dying lamestream media is, that if you can’t do the job you are supposed to do, people will go elsewhere.

[Always Right]

try out clusty.com....the few searches i have done, it has been very good.

[padre35]

“the fact that the have a leftist agenda..”

Well there is that..

I still use Alta Vista, tried Dogpile and was not impressed, tried Cuil...no thanks...

[Paladin2]

It’s similar to the quandary of what medium to use for one’s archival backup of digital data. There may be no good answer, much less a good, long term answer.

[bolobaby]

Don’t forget the new kid on the block:

www.cuil.com

[SouthTexas]

An '06 article on Google's "purging".

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

How true. I even find shopping through them next to impossible compared to what it used to be. Looked for tickets to “Kids In the Hall” a few months ago. The first few Google results gave prices well over $100. Knew that was stupid so I looked harder. Found out that Ticketron was less than $50. Thing was I found out later that others saw the same first few results I did and didn't dig any further for better prices. They didn't want to pay for the high cost tickets and missed the show which they would have went to with reasonable ticket prices.

[cgbg]

When you offer a consumer a product and suggest it is one thing when it fact it is a radically different thing that is called "consumer fraud".

Let the consumer complaints begin!

If Google wants to avoid this trouble they can try this disclaimer on their web page:

"Warning, we are ideological one-world government socialists--and we have edited our search engine to reflect our values. If you want uncensored information go elsewhere."

[pointsal]

check out “The California Chronicle” for a news page

[csvset]

I’ve used Clusty for the past couple of years. I rarely use Google.

[Right Wing Assault]

Good one! From the article.