Originally posted by Awoken4Ever
reply to post by JessopJessopJessop
I don't agree with anything your saying at all about Google. In fact, through some research we were looking at last year, Google is in fact manipulating site rankings. There are a number of many taboo subjects you can go google, and common information for that topic is not readily available. A perfect example of this is searches for "suicide." More specifically, how to commit suicide, painless ways to commit suicide, etc... When you do a search for this stuff, majority of the top rankings all come back to suicide prevention stuff. I haven't looked at it in quite some time, and just did a quick search on "painless ways to commit suicide" and the very top ranking site was a page with graphic pictures of people who were unsuccessful and what went wrong, horror stories, stories about going to hell, and just about everything else you can think of that would try to talk someone out of doing it, and then a crisis hotline number at the bottom of the page. Google use to be much worse at burying this stuff, but then it got out in the open they were in fact doing it, and I notice now it is not as edited as it once was, but majority of the stuff is to persuade you from doing it, rather than how to do it. If it wasn't being manipulated at all, then why is it that prevention stuff always comes up the highest in it's rankings, when you specialize your search with key words? In fact, if it wasn't manipulated or edited, then why is this the very first thing that comes up on every search you do related to the topic "Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline"
You are wrong in what you are saying if the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is always at the top of the list. Google is not only run by marketing, but it is absolutely run by censorship as well.edit on 6-12-2011 by Awoken4Ever because: (no reason given)
But is there any observable evidence for this, apart from the position of anti-suicide websites, which I'm not seeing.
I'm struggling to even verify what you said. When I search "painless ways to commit suicide" the results are completely natural. I don't see anything that suggests prevention websites are being given preference.
Could you please screenshot what you're seeing for that search, because I'm not seeing it
edit on 7-12-2011 by JessopJessopJessop because: (no
reason given)
Not just look at the door and move on. I am saying that kindly as a hint in
general, not trying to be an ass to you 
