This isn't the first time they have done this kind of thing. If you try to get to "Conservative" sites, many will stop you and tell you the page is malicious.

[edit on 5-8-2008 by Dronetek]

No issues with my blog, I had several top stops early on too but everything mysteriously dissapeared off googles search service.


Not sure why, but I dont think google is censoring me. Most of what google does is automated.

Not surprising is it?

1. This is a company that works with at least one communist government (China) to limit what that country's people can and cannot see on internet search results.

2. This is a company that pushed the DOJ, telling them Microsoft had a monopoly with Windows by not revealing source code and yet they want an exclusive search deal with Yahoo! - because that wouldn't be a monopoly at all.

I'm sure there's a good deal of money being thrown around in there somewhere for this anti-Obama limiting behavior.

Originally posted by sos37
Not surprising is it?

It's not surprising that conservatives, who have always made fun of liberals for crying conspiracy, are themselves crying conspiracy here.

Originally posted by sos37
1. This is a company that works with at least one communist government (China) to limit what that country's people can and cannot see on internet search results.

What's your point? Google isn't the United States Government, it is a private company that provides a service. It's not Google's fault that China has a communist government that doesn't care about freedom of speech, and wants their citizens censored. It doesn't stop any other industry from dealing with China, so why should it stop Google? Are they somehow different from other private companies?

Originally posted by sos37
2. This is a company that pushed the DOJ, telling them Microsoft had a monopoly with Windows by not revealing source code and yet they want an exclusive search deal with Yahoo! - because that wouldn't be a monopoly at all.

Apologies if i'm ill-informed here, but didn't the DOJ file the lawsuit against Microsoft in 1997, six months BEFORE Google even become a company? Maybe there was another. I mean, i know Google still wants to extend those Microsoft anti-trust regulations so that consumers actually get to choose which desktop service products they want. But, even if this benefits Google, it also benefits all of the other companies that offer these services.

Of course Google wants an exclusive deal with Yahoo regarding their paid search (not organic search). Wouldn't you? The fact of the matter is, however, there are a plethora of paid search advertising companies out there, many of which are far worse than Google AdWords, including Yahoo's Panama. Even so, there are a good number of smaller companies that have great benefits to their interfaces. Google isn't forcing them out of business, not in the least.

They may have 80% of the search traffic, but this isn't a result of underhanded tactics the likes of which Microsoft was punished for. It's a result of people like me and you simply preferring Google. If you want to change the big players in search, just use Yahoo, MSN, Cuil, RedZee, i mean come on. There are thousands of them out there. Nobody is twisting YOUR arm.

Originally posted by sos37
I'm sure there's a good deal of money being thrown around in there somewhere for this anti-Obama limiting behavior.

I would love to see any evidence you have about this because i'm sure there is absolutely none. Are you alleging that Obama's campaign has paid Google for "limiting" anti-obama behavior? See this would be completely untrue based on the sheer fact that Google has gained a reputation for pretty much doing everything right, hitting it out of the park every time. Yet, it doesn't take me more than 10 seconds to find an anti-obama website on google. So they must not be doing a very good job!