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Google blocks ad for anti-Clinton book
WorldNetDaily.com ^
| 11 June 2005
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Posted on 06/11/2005 2:18:31 AM PDT by Robert Drobot
Content 'unacceptable' despite search giant's 'Hate Bush' themes
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
A conservative book publisher says the search engine giant Google rejected his ad for a book critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while continuing to accept anti-Bush themes.
Eric Jackson, CEO of World Ahead, said his ads for "Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine" were rejected, without futher explanation, due to "unacceptable content."
Jackson says Google's online ad guidelines make no mention of political content being disallowed.
He points out that while ads for the anti-Clinton book -- which featured images of the book's cover and pictures of the former first couple -- were deemed offensive, the company continues to run ads for overtly liberal advertisers with headlines such as "Hate Bush? So Do We," and "George W. Bush fart doll."
As WorldNetDaily reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats.
CEO Eric Schmidt gave the maximum legal limit of donations to Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry and to primary candidate Howard Dean.
Schmidt also contributed the maximum amount to Sen. Clinton, whose role in helping her husband intimidate his female accusers is addressed in the new book.
Last month, Google, valued recently at $80 billion, rejected an attempt by the conservative activist group RightMarch.com to run ads critical of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while continuing to run attack ads against besieged House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
Also, Google has agreed to allow the communist Chinese government to have the search engine block "objectionable" search terms such as "democracy." (My emphasis.)
The company came under fire for a recent editorial decision to rank news articles in search results by "quality," giving preferential placement to large and predominately liberal media outlets such as CNN and the BBC over conservative news sources, even if they are more recent or pertinent.
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To: calex59
>>I use dogpile..it uses a number of search engines and is far better than google.
I switched to Dogpile too, after that Memorial Day wake-up. But doesn't Dogpile use Google anyway? Are we really depriving Google of traffic when we use Dogpile?
(Not a rhetorical question. I really don't know.)
To: Marauder
"Makes me wonder whether trying to use Mozilla will mess things up."
I, too, am on SBC-Yahoo. (I was grandfathered through flash.net.) I use Mozilla Firefox as my browser, and have had both the Dallas Morning News and Drudge as my homepage -- and no real problems.
As to those seeking a better search engine than google -- try dogpile (www.dogpile.com) or metacrawler (www.metacrawler.com). Both are meta-engines that use several search engines.
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posted on
06/11/2005 6:20:38 AM PDT
by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: Robert Drobot
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posted on
06/11/2005 6:27:38 AM PDT
by
Bon mots
To: Wilhelm Tell
Maybe some Chinese-speaking Freepers can try it and report the results. I think it's already been done.
I decided to query "democracy" and "china" in Google and came up with some interesting hits. One from Harvard of all places
Looks like more than just Freepers are offended by this.
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posted on
06/11/2005 6:41:16 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(In God We Trust. All Others We Monitor.)
To: freedom4me
I just did the same thing - I also did a search for Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, and it's amazing how different the images are between the Republican side and the Democrat side.
However, I also did a search on the images for Tennessee_Bob and laughed my a$$ off. My picture was first on the list.
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posted on
06/11/2005 6:58:20 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
(The Crew Chief's Toolbox: A roll around cabinet full of specialists.)
To: syriacus
Dogpile is great; try it.
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posted on
06/11/2005 8:20:31 AM PDT
by
Victor
(If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
To: Robert Drobot
Time to change search engines.
Lots of good recommendations here.
Anyone know the background on these companies?
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posted on
06/11/2005 8:38:54 AM PDT
by
GVnana
To: GVgirl
..background?
Other than they're all loooosers with slow servers, no.
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posted on
06/11/2005 8:45:43 AM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: backhoe
There should be some kind of monument erected in your honor.
Your are utterly phenomenal, thank you for all your hard work.
To: Madame Dufarge
Your kind words are appreciated. Seriously, I thank you.
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posted on
06/11/2005 8:51:18 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: No Truce With Kings
it won't let me enter a different startup page..Sounds like malware to me-- I had a problem with something not wanting me to change the home page and I'm not sure how I cured it. I recommend AVG virus control by griftsoft (free) and an ad remover like Ad-Aware by Lavasoft (also free). If that doesn't help you can always clusty the problem here.
Best of luck
To: american_ranger
I just switched my default Mozilla Firefox search engine from Google to Alta Visa.I'd be obliged if you can tell me how to do that- I can't seem to find a tab in the menus to hit. I'll be away from the 'net for a while- wifey is coming in from a 4-day seminar, so I may not reply for a while. Thanks.
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posted on
06/11/2005 8:58:30 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: american_ranger
I just switched my default Mozilla Firefox search engine from Google to Alta Visa. I'd be obliged if you can tell me how to do that- I can't seem to find a tab in the menus to hit. I'll be away from the 'net for a while- wifey is coming in from a 4-day seminar, so I may not reply for a while. Thanks.DUH!
Never mind- I clicked on the "search" icon & the bloody thing presented a menu-- sometimes this new stuff is too easy for oldtimers to use... I expected to have to edit the config file.
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posted on
06/11/2005 9:09:35 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: backhoe
"Google insiders sell over a billion dollars of stock in one day
Shattering all previous dot.com records, on May 4th Google registered its largest single instance of insider liquidation to date. Over 1 billion dollars worth sold in under 24 hours.
Pretty impressive, considering if you totaled every penny that Google has made as a corporation since it was founded you don't even come close to a billion dollars of profit. But why bother earning money the old fashioned way like that- this is the new synergistic paradigm!
Google is now officially in business only to sell stock certificates to clueless retail investors- everything else has become a distant second."
http://finance.lycos.com/qc/research/insider.aspx?datatype=Planned&symbols=NASDAQ:GOOG
To: BlackRain
Is Google Overstating Earnings?
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB111396204075711625,00.html
"There's a blurb in the Wall Street Journal today that explains how Google's reported bottom line is being gamed by their own options program. It seems since they backloaded the options expense onto last year's earnings statement, this quarter's results will be ARTIFICIALLY BOOSTED almost 100%, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with their actual profitability as a business. Keep that in mind when they announce earnings tomorrow.
It's the same sort of trick Cisco pulled when their stock collapsed 80% back in 2000. They "wrote off" several billion dollars worth of equipment they said they could never be able to sell, and took a huge charge against earnings. Then over the following quarters they decided they'd sell that equipment after all, but it was all sold at a 100% profit margin since their "cost" was now free. This allowed Cisco to fool investors for a little while longer, and more importantly allowed their insiders to cash out billions."
To: oldironsides
This news will not sit well with investors. Exactly. And here is an idea worthy of extrapolating off what you just said. Let's all short the stock and simultaneously work the campaign with anybody and everybody that listens that Google is a leftist political tool that must be avoided at all cost. I was already thinking of shorting the stock because it seems so overpriced. I think your analogy to CNN is a good one and Google better be careful because that is a good example of what happen when market share flees. Frankly, they seem very vulnerable to competitors. As for the rank and file sheeple, I'm not sure that the average person makes the connection as to how a 'search engine' would be a worthy target for boycotting or switching to somebody else since it is unclear to most as to their actual revenue sources.
To: Robert Drobot
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posted on
06/11/2005 9:48:51 AM PDT
by
rdb3
(What you want? Morning sickness or sickness from mourning? --Nick Cannon)
To: ovrtaxt
I am now usung clusty. Google can kiss my big libertarian butt. What's clusty? I'd search for it but I just deleted Google from my taskbar.
To: Dan Evans
http://clusty.com
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posted on
06/11/2005 1:44:38 PM PDT
by
Robert Drobot
(Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.)
To: Robert Drobot
That's ok - I read somewhere that the Google folks think their company is worth $ 86 billion. Boy, are they in for a surprise...
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posted on
06/11/2005 1:45:48 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
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