It’s a problem. I’ve noticed that google seems to do some political editing, and of course there have been a lot of comments about that here.
It’s especially annoying when I go to google something that I haven’t bookmarked, and google has wiped that reference apparently because they disapprove of it. For instance, try to find an ugly anti-Obama photo. There are a ton of them out there, but they are much harder to find. Used to be easier.
The trouble is, most of the other search engines seem to be equally biased, and google is usually the most thorough—except when they play these games. I don’t think Yahoo is necessarily better.
Also, some of this may simply be happenstance or necessary cleaning of the servers, which are large but not infinite. The subject came up a few months ago. When I searched for my real name I came up with more than a million entries—including a couple of other guys with the same name. Today I just checked, and it’s now 70,000, including the usual seguing into pages where only the first or the last name appears.
Google was among the first search engines to drop the mandatory spyware that made me abandon some of the other early ones. If you checked the wrong box they would follow you around, but they didn’t install spyware on your computer as some of the other outfits (now defunct) used to do.
Anyway, maybe bing will succeed in beating out google, but I kind of doubt it.
Oh, there's a problem alright.
Yahoo returns 67,900,000 hits for Polaris, not Polarik, who yields 114,000 hits.
Likewise, Bing returns 13,700,000 hits for Polaris, not Polarik, who yields 10,300 hits.
Don't believe a word that Polarik posts.
I wish someone would knock Google off their pedestal, and I hate having to use it, and Yahoo...well, Yahoo is in cohoots with the AP who took a dive like MSNBC and have gone totally in the tank for Obama.
In the meantime, I’ll try to use Bing more often.
Fascinating.
Thanks for all the yeoman’s work you do on such things.
And for letting us in on your process, insights, findings.
May God bless you and those you love this
. . . uhhhhhh . . . memorial . . . . / celebration day.