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.
I was using Mozilla when I was on dialup, and I'm going to install it on this machine. Thanks for the tip.
Google basically shows that it is not independent. They could easily perform the same action with bloggers or any of the none-believers of global warming. Might as well drop it totally if you can't depend on the validity of the search.
Anyone have a contact addy for google..Couldnt find one jut now..We should start flooding them with complaints
now would be a good time for every freeper to dump al lthier google stock before it tanks
www.mama.com is agood search engine to use if your tired of google
I've now switched to Dogpile, and will never use Google again.
"Wow. Funky to go from your first link and see Freeperland aka. 2000 and the different appearance. Pretty cool."
Let's see if I can take you even further...
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