The Audacity of Barnes & Noble: Search for 'God' Yields Obama Book

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

NewsBusters reader Shane S. shared this experience:

I was searching for a book I read in college, "God: A Biography." I searched Barnes & Noble's website using the book's title as my search term. The book I was looking for was the first result given. The second result? "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" by the Messiah Himself, Barack Obama.

I tried the experiment myself, and sure enough. Here's the link to the search page. After the jump you'll see the image of the search page result.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Search for “God” yields Obama book ping to Today show list.

[Sprite518]

Par for the course for the Secularist. This is what happens when you become narcissistic.

[metesky]

It's going to be pretty embarrassing for these false messiah worshipers when they find their idol, like most idols, has feet of clay.

[TheRake]

Shop at Borders.

[LibertyRocks]

One more mark in the “False Prophet” list for Obama...

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I ran the same search at Borders and Amazon, and neither turned up the Obama book. Looks like Barnes is the most biased bookseller!

[NewHampshireDuo]

For a while I shopped on line at B&N but I found their search engine to be just horrible.

[Politically Correct]

I can't even imagine a search algorhythm that would yield that result unless it includes a line like this

if "god" return "obama"

[BuffaloJack]

Just what we need, another prophet, and this one a Marxist.

[SE Mom]

Holy cow!

[the invisib1e hand]

Obama said there’d be signs...

[WildcatClan]

No Obama at Amazon, but 2 of the top 3 results are Hitchens and Dawkins.

[Sender]

Bump for amusement. “Biography” is the main keyword; someone must have added “God”.

[CDHart]

All the rest of the titles that came up include "God" in the title. Obama's doesn't. So someone has been playing with the search function, IMO.

Carolyn

[Rebelbase]

Yep, did the search, it’s as you say. Unbelievable.

[Ditter]

At B&N the liberal books are always prominently displayed and we delight in covering them up with other books. A couple of years ago I asked for some anti-clinton book and had to have help finding it. It turned out to be in the back of the store, bottom shelf. I called for the manager and threw a hissy fit. It did get better at that particular store. At least for a while it was better but I don't buy political books anymore so I am not looking.

[OKSooner]

"Shop at Borders."

Shop at your friendly neighborhood independent book store.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

LOL!

Just as bad.

[Melchior]

Don’t buy books at the chains. Instead, use abe.com and access the thousands of lesser but indespensible book shops found around the nation.