Google washes search results

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

[pnz1]

Does Dogpile work with Mozilla?

[Incorrigible]

Hello Kelley

Hi, can You please state where You got this information that Google is now basically handpicking which websites/stories & news it will display in the Google search results & news results?

I believe it's pretty well stated in the article at the top of this page and the link that takes you there:

(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...

 

[Always Right]

Careful, the last time I said exactly that, I was severely chastised by many here...

Yeah, there are some who think google is the greatest thing ever, and at one time I might have agreed. Unfortunately, FR is becoming a bit too PC also. FR has gone from a bunch of angry anarchists to a bunch of mainstream republicans. I quoted a bible verse last week, and it got pulled. Granted it was in bad taste, but it was a full verse straight out of the king james.

[Dick Bachert]

If you can access it, it should work with any browser.

[nomad]

Dogpile rules,but are they in any way liberal controlled?I am attempting to divest myself as much as possible of any support for anything thats liberal tainted.

[slnk_rules]

I am attempting to divest myself as much as possible of any support for anything thats liberal tainted.

Lots of luck. My advice is to disconnect your computer.

[ConservativeMind]

I can’t suggest their toolbar, which can be flagged as “adware,” but I just tried Alexa.com for the first time in ages and found it did better than Google or the others listed in this thread.

Alexa.com can be used without using its toolbar. Give it a try and tell me what you think. I am pretty amazed, and it gives a preview of the page they link to.

[nomad]

Well its a matter of degrees of contact and level of contamination.As an Independent Conservative who has felt forced to vote Republican for years,the concept of the lesser of two evils comes to mind.

[SunkenCiv]

Google cranks up the Consensus Engine
The Register | 12/12/2008
Posted on 12/14/2008 4:48:12 AM PST by autumnraine
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148523/posts

[agere_contra]

I use Clusty. It’s excellent!

[Smokin' Joe]

You came in number one here, too, Dogpile.com, but only if there were no spaces in between the words, otherwise you came in second behing the spray.

I was curious, and figured I'd let you know the results.

[Smokin' Joe]

behing= behind. Sheesh!

[Zechariah_8_13]

this comes as no surprise. I’ve seen things that are incriminating to Dems “disappear” more than once.

BTTT

[RhoTheta]

Dogpile works with Firefox 3.0 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron on my laptop.

[Fawnn]

Thanks for checking!

[El Gato]

"We can do it because we are Google." Move over, GM.

Does that mean that Shifty Paulson will be negotiating to loan give them a pot of our money too?

[Smokin' Joe]

I was curious, I have used Dogpile with pretty good success for about a decade, and seem to get relevant results fairly quickly. I just wanted to see how they stacked up. (I never Google).

[Kenny]

I just had another horrible thought. I contacted a toy company for a recall and they asked me where I heard about the recall. I didn’t think much about it and gave them the name of the site that posted their company contact info (nothing on the box of the toy) but now I wonder why they wanted it.

Is it possible for companies to pay Google to block sites that lead people to the recalls? They could probably save a boatload of cash. Once they start tampering, where does it end?

[spacewarp]

Tried it.

Slow.

Layout is VERY non-intuitive.

I just tried one of the others recommended in a previous post, Clusty.com and like the layout. I certainly worry about mistyping THAT url and what kind of fun would ensue.