It happened to WebCrawler, AltaVista and MetaCrawler
before its arrival in 1998
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=175848#175848
The death of Google's credibility as new algorithm keeps all but
mainstream off first page
www.Bilderberg.org has been forced down in last week to second page
of Google 'bilderberg' results - GOOD LORD!
Hopeless on foreign policy Guardian gets SIX out of 12 links on first
page!
We're going back to the old days where if you want to get the Republican
view you have to get Republicn News :)
Use your bookmarks - and get all your friends to switch to real search
engines
https://www.yandex.com/ -
https://duckduckgo.com/ -
http://www.dogpile.com/ -
https://uk.ask.com
here's some - let me know others please
Evidence of Google blacklisting of left and progressive sites continues
to
mount
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/08/goog-a08.html
A growing number of leading left-wing websites have confirmed that their
search traffic from Google has plunged in recent months, adding to
evidence that Google, under the cover of a fraudulent campaign against
fake news, is implementing a program of systematic and widespread
censorship.
Truthout, a not-for-profit news website that focuses on political,
social, and ecological developments from a left progressive standpoint,
had its readership plunge by 35 percent since April. The Real News
, a nonprofit video news and documentary service, has had its
search traffic fall by 37 percent. Another site, Common Dreams
,
last week told the WSWS that its search traffic had fallen by up to 50
percent.
As extreme as these sudden drops in search traffic are, they do not equal
the nearly 70 percent drop in traffic from Google seen by the
WSWS.
“This is political censorship of the worst sort; it’s just an excuse to
suppress political viewpoints,” said Robert Epstein, a former editor in
chief of
Psychology Today and noted expert on Google.
Epstein said that at this point, the question was whether the WSWS had
been flagged specifically by human evaluators employed by the search
giant, or whether those evaluators had influenced the Google Search
engine to demote left-wing sites. “What you don’t know is whether this
was the human evaluators who are demoting you, or whether it was the new
algorithm they are training,” Epstein said.
Richard Stallman, the world-renowned technology pioneer and a leader of
the free software movement, said he had read the WSWS’s coverage on
Google’s censorship of left-wing sites. He warned about the immense
control exercised by Google over the Internet, saying, “For people’s main
way of finding articles about a topic to be run by a giant corporation
creates an obvious potential for abuse.”
According to data from the search optimization tool SEMRush, search
traffic to Mr. Stallman’s personal website, Stallman.org, fell by 24
percent, while traffic to
gnu.org, operated by the Free Software
Foundation, fell 19 percent.
Eric Maas, a search engine optimization consultant working in the San
Francisco Bay area, said his team has surveyed a wide range of
alternative news sites affected by changes in Google’s algorithms since
April. “While the update may be targeting specific site functions,
there is evidence that this update is promoting only large mainstream
news organizations. What I find problematic with this is that it appears
that some sites have been targeted and others have not.”
The massive drop in search traffic to the WSWS and other left-wing sites
followed the implementation of changes in Google’s search evaluation
protocols. In a statement issued on April 25, Ben Gomes, the company’s
vice president for engineering, stated that Google’s update of its search
engine would block access to “offensive” sites, while working to surface
more “authoritative content.”
In a set of guidelines issued to Google evaluators in March, the company
instructed its search evaluators to flag pages returning “conspiracy
theories” or “upsetting” content unless “the query clearly indicates the
user is seeking an alternative viewpoint.”
The WSWS will continue to expose and fight Google’s program of
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