This is the first image from a Google image search for "Clinton".
Posted on 08/23/2004 5:48:51 PM PDT by wagglebee
Google, the popular Internet search site, claims to uphold its corporate motto, "Don't be evil," and yet it allows advertising for what many would consider blatant evil -- pornographic videos of homosexual activity, according to a report by Ron Strom in WorldNetDaily.
Google recently banned an ad from the Christian organization, Stand to Reason, because the group's website contains articles opposing homosexuality that were determined by Google to be "hate speech."
In an e-mail addressed to Stand to Reason, Google managerment said, "Google AdWords policy never permits ads or keywords promoting hate, violence, or crimes toward any organization, person or group protected by law," including those distinguished by their "sexual orientation/gender identity."
(AdWord is a marketing program on Google in which ads are listed in the right-hand margin of search results when key words an advertiser submits match those put in by an online user. The company says it does not restrict actual search results that come up, only the advertisements that accompany them.)
When the word "gay" is searched, the theme of the ads is strictly homosexual pornography sites.
Images offered by Google can also be obscene. A WorldNetDaily reader claimed, "I often go to Google images, looking for pictures to use. Almost without fail you will find porn mixed in with innocent requests." Seaching for the word 'Clinton,' produced a nude woman, the reader said.
Other readers also pointed out problems they have had or observed with Google.
Michael Herman, who works for Christianity Today, says his employer had a similar experience to Stand to Reason's.
"I went back and forth with Google for a few months," he told WorldNetDaily. "They'll allow some ads, but not anything to do with same-sex articles or homosexuality. They called it hate as well, in our case. They just kept rewording their letters to me, hoping I'd give up," Herman said.
Bias in search results?
Another WorldNetDaily reader pointed out that when the word "Jew" is put into Google, the second site listed is JewWatch, "a venomous anti-Semitic website," the reader stated.
"Google, despite it's professed concern about promoting hate, which led them to oh-so-nobly turn down advertising from a Christian group, does a fantastic job of promoting hate itself. I don't buy their line that their policies on advertising does not apply to listings – if you are against hate, you should be against hate. After all, who is forcing them to put JewWatch virtually at the top of their list, for free, without even the excuse of advertising revenue to justify this choice?"
While some are critical of the site's placement on Google, defenders of the search engine say it is simply the result of the creators of JewWatch putting in the effort to better optimize their site for search-engine success and that Google management has nothing to do with search rankings.
Yet another reader noted when one enters "WMD" in the search engine, the first result is a page ridiculing President Bush about the lack of weapons the U.S. has found in Iraq. The page is disguised as a "Page Cannot be Displayed" error message but instead is titled "These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed."
The WMD joke is not the first time a perceived anti-Bush bias has been discovered on Google. WorldNetDaily also reported that the first entry to come up when the words "miserable failure" is put into Google is the White House biography of the president.
Computer users utilize a technique called "Google bombing" to rig results by posting the phrase "miserable failure" on webpages and linking it to the Bush biography.
The same technique has wedded the term "waffles" with John Kerry. When "waffles" is put into Google, the first result to pop up is Kerry's campaign site.
This is the first image from a Google image search for "Clinton".
I would hate to see what would come up with the filters off!
BTTT
::speechless::
Oh my...
Another example of 'hate' being defined down; of it being so watered down that it basically has no meaning anymore except as a leftwing weapon to silence debate and speech.
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