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Google Blocks Gateway Pundit from News Search Results
Breitbart ^ | 12/29/2018 | Breitbart Tech

Posted on 12/29/2018 9:05:24 PM PST by stars & stripes forever

In an email to the Gateway Pundit, Google claimed that it could not provide specific reasons why the site had been rejected. Instead, the tech giant provided two “common reasons for rejection,” although it would not say if they were the actual reasons the conservative website was rejected.

Per Google’s rules, publishers must submit an application to have their site appear in Google News search results. Once rejected, a publisher must wait 60 days before applying again.

Here is the message Google sent to The Gateway Pundit...

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: stars & stripes forever

This is bad. wow. I have proved liberals wrong by searching google and it coming up with solid gateway pundit articles at the top of the search results. more than once.


41 posted on 12/30/2018 1:12:21 AM PST by Democrats hate too much
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To: stars & stripes forever
This is blatant fascism.

Buy a dictionary.


42 posted on 12/30/2018 1:18:26 AM PST by aNYCguy
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To: Rebelbase
Free Republic could be next.

FR is not a news site and has never been in the news searches. That might be discriinatory, but that's always been the case, unchanged for a decade or more.

43 posted on 12/30/2018 2:07:31 AM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: FreedomPoster; Rebelbase
Google searches thus became useless here a few years ago at least. Google is worthless for searching Free Republic...

When I use Google News to search for "Google is worthless for searching" I get:

"No results found for "Google is worthless for searching"

When I use Google All (not News) to search for "Google is worthless for searching", with quotes, I get

Google Blocks Gateway Pundit from News Search Results - Free Republic www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3716152/posts?page=38 which is FreedomPoster's reply. That has always been the case and there is no overt change that I have seen. However there may be covert changes. When I search without quotes

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&biw=1247&bih=815&ei=GJooXMiBF8L85gK-66aICw&q=Google+is+worthless+for+searching&oq=Google+is+worthless+for+searching

I don't see FR anywhere in the first 10 pages of results. I would have expected FreedomPoster's reply to show up in the past. Covert censorship is going to be very difficult to detect without a comprehensive automated testing approach. OTOH the Gateway Pundit News censorship is overt, not hard to detect, and can be fought with evidence-based complaints.

44 posted on 12/30/2018 2:20:09 AM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Democrats hate too much
There is overt censorship removing Gateway Pundit as a Google News source. They may be able to fight that with a complaint that points out they used to be considered a News site, and other similar sites still are. That's what the OP was talking about.

That is different from just typing some text into Google and getting results. That is Google Web or Google "All" which still gives results for Gateway Pundit. However, there could be covert censorship, it's hard to detect and hard to prove. When I type "AWFUL! LIBERAL FACEBOOK Censors Post" with quotes around it, I get Gateway Pumdit as the first result. FR's posting of that article in a thread is the second result. But remove the quotes, and Gateway Pundit did not show up on the first page. But when I searched again after using quotes, it showed up. Then I removed the last word and search for

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&ei=pZ0oXIioCa2L5wKc0L_QBg&q=AWFUL%21+LIBERAL+FACEBOOK+Censors&oq=AWFUL%21+LIBERAL+FACEBOOK+Censors

and did not get a Gateway Pundit hit on the first page. So Google is crafty about covert censorship as that is easy for them to do, making it very difficult to detect and prove if they are in fact doing that.

45 posted on 12/30/2018 2:31:22 AM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Except of course, for the first amendment.

Mumble Bumbler continually elaborates his theory that freedom of the press ONLY applies to corporately employed individuals anointed by sacred college professors at universities, and he expresses his disdain for commoners engaged in public discourse in coarse, sexual terms.

That is who and what he reveals himself to be.


46 posted on 12/30/2018 2:44:01 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: exDemMom

Bing did not like that I was searching with Duckduckgo. Bing also complains if I try to search with Google.
_________________________
How does this happen?

I use StartPage. As a search engine, there has never been a reaction from my use of it.

Google is better only for translation and conversion engines, which come up instantly. Slightly better for people, too.


47 posted on 12/30/2018 3:40:37 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: MrEdd

CNN is way worse than the Gateway Pundit.. bit corporations are behind CNN. It’s time to turn it all off including Fox. It’s all propaganda.


48 posted on 12/30/2018 3:55:12 AM PST by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Whether you think the white house reads them or not, do like I do and send such examples to, “ Contact the Whitehouse”. Just do it, it will help influence as they will know that we en masse know.


49 posted on 12/30/2018 4:17:02 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Either the Wall gets built or America becomes a democrat socialist state.)
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To: MrEdd
Mumble Bumbler continually elaborates his theory that freedom of the press ONLY applies to corporately employed individuals anointed by sacred college professors at universities, and he expresses his disdain for commoners engaged in public discourse in coarse, sexual terms.

Actually, Spunky.. that's just your interpretation of my
position, since I've never said any of that stuff. Perhaps you
should try paying more attention and doing less fantasizing.

Neither do I go around talking crap about people behind their
backs without pinging them like a cowardly little bitch would do.
I understand, that's your thing and you just gotta be you.

Now you just go and have yourself a wonderful day, hear?

50 posted on 12/30/2018 4:41:12 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: GOPJ

Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.


51 posted on 12/30/2018 4:41:32 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: stars & stripes forever
no this is an opportunity to liberate google, FB, Twitter, Instagram and all other social media from the private sector and make them public utilities. Has to be done and done now, before the next election. We are in the middle of a coup and a fascist totalitarian takeover. If we do not take over the means of communication and free them we will frankly, die. for the leftists totalitarian fascists plan to eradicate all opposing viewpoints.
52 posted on 12/30/2018 5:01:08 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

this is an opportunity to liberate google, FB, Twitter, Instagram and all other social media from the private sector and make them public utilities. Has to be done and done now, before the next election. We are in the middle of a coup and a fascist totalitarian takeover. If we do not take over the means of communication and free them we will frankly, die. for the leftists totalitarian fascists plan to eradicate all opposing viewpoints. ...
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I do not pretend to be knowledgeable in how that is done or works. Boy would this make our day, year, decades more free.

Any legal eagles with feet firmly planted I’d like to hear an explanation.


53 posted on 12/30/2018 5:05:53 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Either the Wall gets built or America becomes a democrat socialist state.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

I am not 100 per cent sure but I think this is an executive branch decision if the country is being threatened.


54 posted on 12/30/2018 5:07:32 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: reformedliberal

What happens is that I type “www.goo” or “www.duckduckgo” in the address bar in explorer, the rest of the address fills in and I hit enter. Instead of bringing up the website, Bing opens a search window that asks why I would use those other search engines when I have Bing right there, and invites me to type my query in the Bing tool. Below that window is a list of search results, the top one of which is the search engine I was trying to get to in the first place.

I usually do use Bing since it’s right there, but the best search engine in terms of returning the results I want is still Google. So I end up using Google anyway on more advanced searches, after my search on Bing or Duck fails. Google is far superior on image searches, as well, and it makes images easier to download once I find them. I truly hope these other search engines are working hard on their search algorithms, because once they can match or exceed Google, I think use of Google will drop drastically.


55 posted on 12/30/2018 5:14:15 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Chickensoup

I am not 100 per cent sure but I think this is an executive branch decision if the country is being threatened.
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If that is the case then PDJT better start siting examples every day in tweets so when it is done everything would see it coming and the case already made. He is not doing that.


56 posted on 12/30/2018 5:33:05 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Either the Wall gets built or America becomes a democrat socialist state.)
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To: montag813

” Hoft often makes our side look bad with embarrassingly bad sourcing/jumping the gun.”

Just like all the other news sources that Google does allow


57 posted on 12/30/2018 5:33:58 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: CincyRichieRich

I am not 100 per cent sure but I think this is an executive branch decision if the country is being threatened.
...
If that is the case then PDJT better start siting examples every day in tweets so when it is done everything would see it coming and the case already made. He is not doing that.
...
Like tweeting link to FB “rules handbook”


58 posted on 12/30/2018 5:36:31 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Either the Wall gets built or America becomes a democrat socialist state.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

No wall at the border but a wall around the internet is the plan. The leftist scum want to be gatekeepers of people and information. They think they own you.


59 posted on 12/30/2018 5:47:55 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Google, Facebook and others have become too big to succeed.


60 posted on 12/30/2018 6:10:24 AM PST by cymbeline
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