Google edits out "Obama bowing" search

google.com | 4.6.2009 | TexasNative2000

[TexasNative2000]

I decided to check Google to see how much reporting had taken place on Obama's bow to the Saudi King.

Google has a feature that will pre-fill a drop-down menu based on what you type. For example, when I typed the letters O and b, it started listing various Obama topics. As I typed out O-b-a-m-a b-o-w, the drop down menu listed "Obama bowling". I continued to spell out the word "bowing" and the menu selection remained "Obama bowling".

So I clicked on my original selection "Obama bowing" and clicked "Images". There is not a single image of Obama bowing to the Saudi King on Google. There are various photos of Obama bowing his head to pray, along with other miscellaneous photos of Obama.

Then I clicked on "Web" to see what stories were posted about this episode. The only stories listed by Google are all from blogs, which means one of two things - either there are NO stories from any news organization other than blogs, or Google is not listing them.

[chris_bdba]

I just used google and typed in “Obama bows to Saudi King” and got tons of places including the YouTube of it?

[capt. norm]

I entered "Obama bowing" and got a whole page of news stories and images of him bowing, just now.

Not only that, but when I entered the search words and got as far as "obama bowi__" it filled the rest in to make "Obama bowing".

Give it a shot and see what you get.

[arthurus]

That is one reason I avoid Google. I use Clusty and “Obama bowing” gets the video.

[Islander7]

"googled "obama bows to saudi king", first pic..

First picture, I'm a PC

[raybbr]

try “obam bows to king”

[Technical Editor]

6,450,000 hits for Obama bow.

Maybe the message to you is to stop letting Google think for you!

[pabianice]

[Cicero]

I searched for it earlier as “YouTube Obama bows.”

It’s still there under that search:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY

[Stoat]

I'm a Mac!

YouTube - Obama is a Mack

(Bad language warning....not suitable for playing in a work or family environment)

[humblegunner]

I never go to Google. Only Dogpile.

Sucks to be limited that way I'll bet.

[sergeantdave]

Got 341,000 hits for “obama space alien.”

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Sucks to be limited”????
Not sure if you’re kidding or not! Dogpile searches many engines.
“If you had a choice between a single-person search party, or a search team of half-a-dozen, which would you choose? Yep, us too. Why not put six search engines to work on something in the same time it takes to use one? This is what we call metasearch. Dogpile puts the power all the leading search engines – Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, and Ask – together in one search box to deliver the best combined results. The process is more efficient and yields more relevant results.”

[AFreeBird]

The thing about google, or any search engine for that matter is; you gotta know how to phrase your question.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Now I gotcha! Long day! Here’s Dogpile for those who don’t want to be “limited” anymore.
http://www.dogpile.com/

[Myrddin]

For those who missed it.

[humblegunner]

Nope.

Dogpoo fails.

[FixedandDilated]

First image, first try:

http://images.google.com/images?q=obama%20bowing&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

[tomkat]

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=&as_q=obama+bowing&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=

[tomkat]

(but google still blows)

[FixedandDilated]

The President sticks his butt out:

http://worldnetdaily.com/images/misc/bowone.jpg