Posted on 01/27/2007 9:52:58 AM PST by discipler
While one of the co-founders of Google admitted that censoring Google searches in China--blocking information from Chinese citizens that their communist government would find embarrassing-- turned out to be a bad business move, the other founder, Larry Page, gave no hint that there would be a reversal of their practices. He said, "I don't think we as a company should be making decisions based on too much perception."
What Mr. Page doesn't understand is that free speech is not a matter of "perception". Maybe he would understand this better if every time someone did a search for "Google", he received the following message:
Your search - "Google" - did not match any documents.
Suggestions:
Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
Try different keywords.
Try more general keywords.
Increasingly web page designers are using tricks that force their page to pop up first. This makes googles great search algorithm foiled, useless.
Want to communicate something about the Holocaust, abortion, global warming, unemployment, tax cuts, spending, Corvettes or Hummers? Create a web page, or even many differnet web pages, that all trick google into placing your article at the top.
Then, when that grade school kid, or high school or college kid is prepapring his paper, he will base it on yours. And when that candidate is preparing his position paper, he will google, find your web page and base his position on your web page.
Sergey and Larry, or as I like to call them, Fric and Frac.
By "bad business decision" do they think that maybe, someday, the billion plus citizens of China will know what Google's done?
Google is always modifying its algorithm to account for this. They just made "Google bombs" less effective. Plus, sites that use certain tricks get delisted from Google (their rank set to zero).
Even thought they think they've disabled Googlebombs, maybe we should try linking the word Google as often as possible to the webpage of the Embassy of Red China. :)
Hey Bob. As you know, the Google Bomb has become much less effective. So it takes about eight times as many left-wing bloggers, smoking dope in their moms' basements with waaay too much time on their hands, to link "George W. Bush" with "miserable failure."
Think they can pull it off?
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