[Huntress]

I just now searched “jihad” on google, and jihadwatch.com was the fourth or fifth listing on the first page.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"Jihad: A Misunderstood Concept from Islam"

It's not difficult. It means murdering people for a false belief in a devil worshipper.

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING post. Thanks, Jacquerie.

HOORAY Robert Spencer! Researching the “search” engines. Full speed ahead. At this time 241 years past Independence Day...

FReedom of thought ALERT! Creeping Totalitarianism. Domestic enemies ALERT!

[PGalt]

In my jihadwatch search in the Google box...Jihad Watch - Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ...

https://www.jihadwatch.org/

came up at the top of the page.

[BobL]

I googled on my work computer which isn’t used for politics (in case they were tailoring results), and Spencer came up 5th. I’d like to think that some left-wing weenie there was trying to be cute, but Google management understands just how important it is to keep politics out of their core business (as Target and JC Penny had to learn the hard way).

[JohnyBoy]

Since google has already reverted Jihadwatch back to normal, let me give you an example of a site google has censored.

vault co is a conspiracy theory blog written by a game named Texas Arcane that I’ve enjoyed reading over the years. Do not take this guy seriously. However I noticed a few years ago that google no longer displayed his site in it’s index.

Here’s the search for vault co at duck duck go:
https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=vault%20co

The first entry will be: http://vault-co.blogspot.com/

Then search for vault co at google:
https://www.google.com/#q=vault+co

The only entries that come up are sites attacking his blog. Though why anyone cares about his blog is beyond me as he doesn’t have many readers.

Since both Duck Duck Go and google use the same search data this means that google has this guy’s blog on some kind of censorship list, just like they had jihadwatch before they complained about it.

[SkyPilot]

I noticed the same thing several years ago at Google concerning searches such as "Homosexuality and Bible."

Sites that spoke the truth regarding what God's Word says about the subject suddenly were relegated to page 4, 5, or 6, and sites that attempted to justify homosexuality with Scripture were moved to page 1.

Like this one:

http://www.livingout.org/the-bible-and-ssa

[major-pelham]

Break up Google ! They created a terrific business and abused the power that went along with it. Now they deserve what they get.

[semaj]

You should have seen the nasty results I received when googling for a magnetic MAGA bumper sticker for my truck.

[Lisbon1940]

When I put in ‘republic’, FreeRepublic is nowhere to be seen.

[Bryan24]

What google ought to do is give you choice.

Put about 5 buttons on the top of the search page. These buttons are sorting mechanisms.

Sort by [Popularity] [Content] etc... or something like that. That way, if you want to find what is “trending” you can do that, or simply do a word or content search.

[mrsmel]

Merkel told them to jump, they said “How high?”

[Presbyterian Reporter]

I use StartPage as my internet searcher.

Jihad Watch came in at 8th place when a did a search.

For your information StartPage is run out of the Netherlands and Netherlands has some of the strictest privacy laws.

[moovova]

My Google search on “jihad” brought up “JihadWatch.org” on 1st page, 5th item down.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

I just searched “jihad” and it came up as #5 hit.

[fishtank]

I just searched jihad on Google:

(1) definition
(2) definition
(3) definition
(4) JihadWatch

[Presbyterian Reporter]

I just now searched “jihad” on BING, and jihadwatch.com was the ninth listing on the first page

[thulldud]

Google also tracks your searches and sorts results based on what it thinks are your interests.

So what you would need to do is to try searches with a "clean" IP and see what comes up then. Or, use a proxy service, which masks individual searchers behind a catchall IP.

Or, you could do what I do and just use DuckDuckGo....