Does Google have a political agenda? (Vanity)

Old Corps ^ | 30 Nov 06 | Old Corps

[OldCorps]

I recently went to google to do a search for the image of the soldiers in Iraq hold the sign "Halp us Jon Carry..." I entered the following variations in the search box:

1. Halp us Jon Carry

2. Help us Jon Carry

3. Halp us John Kerry

4. Help us John Kerry

Google did not come up with the requested image, even though it was recently all over the internet. Even when I asked for a search of John Kerry, it did not come up with the image. This is just more evidence to the often stated position that Google does indeed have a political agenda. Comments?

[OldCorps]

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Does Google have a political agenda?

Do bears crap in the woods?
Is the pope Catholic?
Shall I continue?

[TommyDale]

They have been political liberals from Day 1.

[pabianice]

It's a puzzle that nearly every one of the new hugely profitable internet companies are solidly anti-American and/or Marxist.

[ElkGroveDan]

Did you do a search on "Irak"? generally the images are found by either a) file name or b) associated text. If no one re-types the funny caption in the image when they posted it, then the search engine wouldn't find it.

Try also image searches on "John Kerry." or John Kerry troops.

[darkwing104]

Are you surprised? Next time use Dogpile.

[traditional1]

That's been my experience/observation there, too.

All the articles on a subject are listed from the most Liberal at the head of the list, then, if any are even included, will you find negative articles somewhere back in the end of the pack.

This is not unlike where the NYT posts "secret information" on Page One, then puts the retraction when outed back on page 24 by the bra ads......

[Brad from Tennessee]

Al Gore is a senior adviser to Google which is owned by limousine liberals.

[Dominic Harr]

1) Yes, google has an agenda.

2) Searching for that in google does bring up a list of sites with that pic. Searching for the 'image' using their image search does not. But that's probably just because no one has named the image that -- even the one posted below is called 'irak.jpg'.

Google's image search, as I understand it, only searches on image names. So in this case, your assumption might be incorrect.

[Terpfen]

Google's search engine doesn't work that way.

Just search for "help us John Kerry" without quotes and look at the first page of web results. I found it in the fourth result.

http://iraqpictures.blogspot.com/2006/11/help-us-john-kerry.html

[Osage Orange]

algore invented Google.....thus you get what you get.

Use dogpile.com

[rjp2005]

Do regular plain old search of "Halp Us" and you'll see plenty of links. Yes Google is liberal, simple searches usually work better than image searches.

[M203M4]

It came up for me with several search terms:

http://images.google.ca/images?q=kerry+iraq+troops&btnG=Search&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=on
Kerry+Iraq+troops

http://images.google.ca/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=active&q=carry+irak&btnG=Search
Carry+Irak

http://images.google.ca/images?q=kerry+irak&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=active&start=21&sa=N&ndsp=21
Kerry+irak (page 2)

etc

[Delta 21]

Type in "Failed Presidency" and hit the "Im feeling Lucky" button and get back with me on this.

MMMMMK.

[dmz]

it took me less than 5 seconds to find in Google images, page 1 with the search string "help me john kerry from soldiers in iraq"

Google may have a liberal bias, but you can't blame your weakness in searching on them.

[Terpfen]

Yeah, Google hard-codes those search results. It's not like there's an organized campaign to take advantage of the company's technology to influence its results, right?

Oh, wait.

[jdm]

Does Google have a political agenda?

Ummm, is this a trick question?

[stuartcr]

Maybe that is what makes them hugely profitable! If so, why would they do otherwise? I doubt they would want to be unprofitable.

[Wormwood]

Type in "Failed Presidency" and hit the "Im feeling Lucky" button and get back with me on this.

Anyone can do a "Google Bomb" like you are describing.

[Karliner]

I heard on Fox news( just a sound byte) Google was pulling all "You Tube" negativity regarding "Bubba" Clintoon. Guess the they're afraid of his old death lists...or, they really LIKE the guy.