Google Admits Future Censorship of Search Results

[ItsTime]

Time to start using other search engines. Now I see why Obama and Google are in bed together.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/12/googlewashing_revisited/page2.html

Try http://Ant.com

[tropicangela]

Post suggestions here.

[M House]

I used to use Altavista and Lycos till I decided just to go with google almost exclusively for the shear amount of content. I don't know how good those are these days.

[Andrew Ryan]

I guess I'll start using Yahoo search or Ask.

[evilfunnystuff]

man this sux i havent found a seach engine even remotely as good as google

cuil and ixquick were a couple of newer ones recomended to me but both were pretty lame imo i really hope someone out there has a decent alternative

[M House]

Isn't Yahoo powered by google or something?

[Kludge]

Your source (a small foreign website) doesn't appear to have a source...

[torchbearer]

here: http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html

Search from all search engines at once.

[JoshLowry]

Basically the article says that if a search result is voted down by thousands of what I imagine to be power users, then they would remove the result.

I actually trust google the most, I believe they are the least evil of search engines.

Yahoo is bad bad bad bad bad.

http://www.votemotion.com/images/yahoo1thumb.jpg (http://www.votemotion.com/images/rpyahoo1.gif) http://www.votemotion.com/images/yahoo2thumb.jpg (http://www.votemotion.com/images/rpyahoo2.gif)

[torchbearer]

here: http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html

Search from all search engines at once.

added some info: WEB SEARCHING

More than 90 search engines grouped into 10 categories
Elimination of duplicates and broken links
Web page preview

[evilfunnystuff]

Your source (a small foreign website) doesn't appear to have a source...

its source is google


Today, Google's cute little explanation of being "uniquely democratic" is no longer present on that page. A subtly different explanation has taken its place - one which acknowledges that in the new democracy of Web 2.0, some votes are more equal than others.

PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page's importance.


added some info: WEB SEARCHING

More than 90 search engines grouped into 10 categories
Elimination of duplicates and broken links
Web page preview

nice


Basically the article says that if a search result is voted down by thousands of what I imagine to be power users, then they would remove the result.

I actually trust google the most, I believe they are the least evil of search engines.

the head of google attended bilderburg this year and now they are changing the system so that some will have greater power in determining what is worthy for us to see. i dunno but i dont like the sounds of that.

[Kludge]

its source is google

Yesterday, Barack Obama said he was going to resign.

[JoshLowry]

Yesterday, Barack Obama said he was going to resign.

lol source plz

[Kludge]

lol source plz

Source is Barack Obama :p

[Knightskye]

You make it sound like Google will be doing the "censorship".

The way the article looked - to me - is that Google would become like Digg, and HuffPo and Paulites would control all the results.

[evilfunnystuff]

Source is Barack Obama :p

http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html

[BeFranklin]

Basically the article says that if a search result is voted down by thousands of what I imagine to be power users, then they would remove the result.

I actually trust google the most, I believe they are the least evil of search engines.

Yahoo is bad bad bad bad bad.

http://www.votemotion.com/images/yahoo1thumb.jpg (http://www.votemotion.com/images/rpyahoo1.gif) http://www.votemotion.com/images/yahoo2thumb.jpg (http://www.votemotion.com/images/rpyahoo2.gif)

I've had one of my websites removed from google adsense for religious opinions on the pedophile priest scandal and the pope.

This was in the earlier days before it became widely known. So the censorship had a political purpose.

Censorship is censorship. Search engines need to be decentralized, and use a more peer-to-peer type of technology. It might be slower, but it will be more accurate.

[JoshLowry]

I've had one of my websites removed from google adsense for religious opinions on the pedophile priest scandal and the pope.

This was in the earlier days before it became widely known. So the censorship has a political purpose.

Censorship is censorship. Search engines need to be decentralized, and use a more peer-to-peer type of technology. It might be slower, but it will be more accurate.

Keywords are "least evil", Google is far from perfect. :)

That's a neat idea.

[JoshLowry]

Search engines need to be decentralized, and use a more peer-to-peer type of technology. It might be slower, but it will be more accurate.

Just found this: http://www.faroo.com/

via google... :p

[Kludge]

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[libertarian4321]

I sometimes use goodsearch.com . It may not be better than the others (uses yahoo search), but every search gives a penny to the charity of your choice.

[gls]

I use Live.com strictly for the free airline miles... www.getsearchperks.com

[inibo]

Your source (a small foreign website) doesn't appear to have a source...

Actually, http://www.theregister.co.uk/ is not all that small, at least not among the technogeek community. I suspect almost everyone in the IT industry reads it at least once a day. I know I do.

[inibo]

Just found this: http://www.faroo.com/

via google... :p


http://www.faroo.com/images/linux.gif Linux version coming soon.

I'm a sad penguin. :(

[BeFranklin]

Actually, http://www.theregister.co.uk/ is not all that small, at least not among the technogeek community. I suspect almost everyone in the IT industry reads it at least once a day. I know I do.

Yes, "biting the hide that feeds IT". Lol.

I read it off and on. You're right, it isn't that small. I didn't read Kludge's comments that way initially, because it isn't. Probably bigger than slashdot (who can read through all those comments).

[ItsTime]

Try http://Ant.com

[BeFranklin]

I'm a sad penguin. :(

Lol. Maybe I'll try running Linux on my new laptop. It worked well for what I wanted, and never crashed. Than I moved to a laptop and had potential driver troubles, but that was years ago.

Linux *STILL* worked better than windows. It never crashed.

[BeFranklin]

Try http://Ant.com

Ach, Ron Paul forums comes in second place, for a thread on Ron Paul jokes.

http://ant.com/web/ron%20paul%20forums

Edit: some old posts there.

[Slist]

I actually propose two search engines:

http://www.exalead.com/

and

http://www.clusty.com/

And for all those having "privacy issues" with google: scroogle.org. It hides your queries so that google cannot find out for what you searched.

[Freedom 4 all]

Post suggestions here.

www.goodsearch.com You can give to charity too for free by searching. I like America's Second Harvest.

[rpfan2008]

http://devilfinder.com/

[Agent CSL]

Being the techipony I am, I flipped my head when I saw Google's new features. This can only mean disaster. The system is going to be used against all sorts of websites that people don't like.

[Knightskye]

Just found this: http://www.faroo.com/

via google... :p

Other than the spelling/grammar errors, it looks pretty cool.

[ShowMeLiberty]

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r304/webby65/scroogle/kmarx2.gif


http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r304/webby65/scroogle/goostep2.gif


www.scroogle.org

www.dogpile.com

[akihabro]

I'm sure that what everyone has loved about the internet is the complete freedom of information. I guess they feel the need to curb our fantasies, craving for information or entertainment. Boo! Yes I have noticed some sites omitted from different searches I've done. I wonder if the traditional media (TV and newspapers) have had a hand in this idea or the reason for this.

[porcupine]

People are posting alternatives without considering whether the alternatives do the exact same thing Google does.

[hypnagogue]

There is potential for abuse in the changes being discussed, but we can't say how it will really turn out. I mean, what types of editorial decisions will they be making? Will it be, "This site has better features and a bigger community," or will it be, "This site is more favorable to democrats/republicans/martians/whoever." We can't say.

Yes it's a mistake, and it undermines Google's usefulness, but it's too much to start declaring them CIA whitewashers.