Posted on 01/09/2012 5:19:30 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
Congressional staffers control the content on Members’ websites. They control Members’ Facebook and Twitter accounts. They can even manage Internet search results by buying ads and using search engine optimization techniques.
But Hill staffers can’t control what people wonder about their bosses.
The latest trend in helpful Web search technologies is quietly causing headaches for Members of Congress and those who manage their reputations. Search engines such as Google now offer suggested search terms that appear in a drop-down menu as users begin typing. Those search terms, formulated partly based on what other users are searching, often serve up all kinds of negative associations about Members of Congress — from keeping gaffes alive to raising sexual questions — and there’s not much politicians can do about it. Look no further than Rep. Alcee Hastings, who was impeached by the House in 1988 and removed from his job as a U.S. district judge in Florida after being charged with bribery and perjury. Though he was later cleared of charges and is now a respected voice on human rights issues, someone typing his name into Google today might think the Florida Democrat had been impeached again.
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This once popular Google result has been minoritized over time when people were boomeranged with the "stupid stick" coming back to hit them in their face.
What flaws? It seems it’s doing exactly what it was programmed to do — suggest the most popular queries. Sometimes I wish it would get out of my face, but if I keep typing the junk goes away.
Yet nary a peep as google systematically “disappeared” half a million hits on image searches for “obama birth certificate” in mid-July 2008.
Absolute BS.
Hastings was convicted by the Senate. He wasn't convicted in criminal court solely because his co-conspirator refused to testify.
There is a very good search engine called Goodsearch.com
When you use it, you can name a charity of your choice, and everytime you use it, they donate a few pennies to the “charity” of your choice.
Of course my “charity” is Second Amendment Sisters. So far we have gotten about $100 from them.
On an old computer that went to computer heaven, I had a search site I think I had found with the old “Ask” that went into periodicals, business related for an industry of interest that was not the typical regurgitated info one finds on the run of the mill engines we get now...and I cannot find it again. I could also go back in years as well; now seems the past is even more difficult to pull up..it seems flooded with endless repetitive most recent results. I have searched with the monopoly of search companies available now and no luck to find it again. My Internet rabbit hole has closed.
Thanks
I think this is funny. Sorry politicians LOL
“I cannot find it again. I could also go back in years as well; now seems the past is even more difficult to pull up..”
Are you talking about Archive.org’s “Wayback Machine”?
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
They have 150 billion web pages archived. Results are hit-and-miss, but they have past versions of some websites going back years.
You might also see if Google Books has the periodicals. Go to the Advanced Search page ( http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search ) and see what you can dig up. Some publications are well represented.
Thank you
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