EGPWS joins the Bing brigade.
Google "Shopping", unlike Google Search, is a private commercial enterprise. It can display, or not display, shopping results for anything it decides to:
"First, we are starting to transition Google Product Search in the U.S. to a purely commercial model built on Product Listing Ads. This new product discovery experience will be called Google Shopping and the transition will be complete this fall. We believe that having a commercial relationship with merchants will encourage them to keep their product information fresh and up to date."A ban on any given product category is annoying as h3ll, given that Google Shopping is widely used. But I don't think that exercising their rights as a private commercial service to not carry firearm info is "censorship" per se, any more than a vegetarian shopping site that doesn't carry information about where to buy meat.
-- http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2012/05/building-better-shopping-experience.html
The Google Search results still carry the full range of info on firearms.
So, NSSF should encourage people to use another shopping service -- there are tons of them. Hit Google where it hurts -- their user base.
(This comment of mine copied from similar prior thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2903851/reply?c=11
Google Search is not censoring info on firearms. Google Shopping is a different, commercial service.
This sort of "article" approaches blog-pimping -- it is looking for page hits based on readers' conflating two separate entities and being outraged.
I’m a great believer in looking at the personal characteristics of the natural characteristics of the majority stockholders, officers ,directors and managers of the corporations attacking the Second Amendment.
Ironically, Google’s own policy for “Freedom of Expression” says, “We’ve pressed governments to make combating Internet censorship a top priority in human rights and economic agendas.” And they say, “We regularly assist research efforts like the Open Net Initiative, the premier monitor of global trends on Internet censorship, by providing funds for their work.”
Not if, but when the feral government exercises control over Google's contents and business operations and helps itself to millions in corporate assets, the company's highest level managers will probably be stunned. They shouldn't be: when you take pot shots at one right, you weaken them all.
It should say:
Google ENTHUSIASTICALLY Joins The Anti-Gun Brigade
Google was liberal from day one.
People who think the Bill of Rights is a smörgåsbord they can pick and choose from at no cost are going to be disappointed when they discover the barbarians have seized the restaurant and banished them to the fields with the rest of the serfs.
(whether these are the kind that zombieize you...I don't know.)
While Google may be the most popular, they are not the only source.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines.php
This is not news. Google is a huge rat supporter.
I also seem to recall that when they came up with the idea of Google Earth they thought it fine and dandy to take pictures of persons PRIVATE property and post it on the web without owners consent or even knowledge. I bet the corporate officers estates though are not available. In short Google seems to have an arrogance that just annoys me.