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Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like—I Know Because It Happened to Me


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2017 Sep 1, 7:19am   21,797 views  51 comments

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http://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas-it-doesn-t-li-1798646437

The Google salespeople were encouraging Forbes to add Plus’s “+1" social buttons to articles on the site, alongside the Facebook Like button and the Reddit share button. They said it was important to do because the Plus recommendations would be a factor in search results—a crucial source of traffic to publishers.

This sounded like a news story to me. Google’s dominance in search and news give it tremendous power over publishers. By tying search results to the use of Plus, Google was using that muscle to force people to promote its social network.

I asked the Google people if I understood correctly: If a publisher didn’t put a +1 button on the page, its search results would suffer? The answer was yes.

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But the most disturbing part of the experience was what came next: Somehow, very quickly, search results stopped showing the original story at all. As I recall it—and although it has been six years, this episode was seared into my memory—a cached version remained shortly after the post was unpublished, but it was soon scrubbed from Google search results. That was unusual; websites captured by Google’s crawler did not tend to vanish that quickly.


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31   anonymous   2017 Dec 27, 5:33pm  

32   zzyzzx   2018 Jan 9, 10:06am  

http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/09/googles-new-fact-check-feature-almost-exclusively-targets-conservative-sites/
Google’s New Fact-Check Feature Almost Exclusively Targets Conservative Sites
33   anonymous   2018 Jan 9, 10:54am  

anon_c6dfa says


How do you "save" people who believe content written by Bulgarian criminals aka Zero Hedge? You know the people who act like their are fight club Tyler Durden while they live in luxury generated by "clicks"....
34   HappyGilmore   2018 Jan 9, 11:06am  

zzyzzx says
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/09/googles-new-fact-check-feature-almost-exclusively-targets-conservative-sites/
Google’s New Fact-Check Feature Almost Exclusively Targets Conservative Sites


New law against murder almost exclusively targets people who kill other people.
35   Patrick   2018 Jan 9, 11:07pm  

Google is also offering to cache news stories on its own servers in a certain format called AMP to "speed them up".

But this is also a power play designed to give them control over the news.

We are a community of individuals who have a significant interest in the development and health of the World Wide Web (“the Web”), and we are deeply concerned about Accelerated Mobile Pages (“AMP”), a Google project that purportedly seeks to improve the user experience of the Web.

In fact, AMP keeps users within Google’s domain and diverts traffic away from other websites for the benefit of Google. At a scale of billions of users, this has the effect of further reinforcing Google’s dominance of the Web.


http://ampletter.org/
38   anonymous   2018 Jan 10, 2:35pm  

Tenpoundbass says
That profile is set up to return the most ville disgusting demonic shit for Children videos you could possibly find on the Internet.


There is some weird shit out there for kids. Adults dressed like Spiderman, all kinds of bizarre shit on Youtube. And no good filtering either.

How do I "Stop showing my kid videos of adults dressed as superheroes playing with toys?"
39   Booger   2018 Feb 11, 7:32pm  

Google used to be amazing, finding a,, sorts of useful information by anyone that posted it on any subject. Now it only delivers commercial results, ranked by how much they pay, sanitized to their own flavor of political correctness and motives.

At this point it’s near fucking useless and I am sad and upset at the loss to humanity in the greater sense.
41   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Feb 16, 3:36pm  

With 90% negative coverage of Trump, didn't the MSM try to influence the election?
42   Patrick   2018 Feb 16, 6:27pm  

Booger says
Google used to be amazing, finding a,, sorts of useful information by anyone that posted it on any subject. Now it only delivers commercial results, ranked by how much they pay, sanitized to their own flavor of political correctness and motives.


Seems that way to me too. Goolag is just one more tool usee by the powers that be to control what people can see or not see.

I switched to Duckduckgo and it's fine. If I can't find something there, I move on to Bing, etc. But I have Google domain names set to point to 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts file so that they just won't work.

## CUSTOM BLOCKING
127.0.0.1 google.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 maps.google.com
127.0.0.1 images.google.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 staticxx.facebook.com
45   marcus   2018 Mar 17, 7:00pm  

The13thRussianBot says
Google is the most Vile Disgusting organization on the planet, and must be busted up and shut down, and search engines declared a Federal Utilty ran by the FCC.


Great solution. Trust the government to decide what videos you might like to see.

Is it possible that those videos that came up are the result of videos you clicked on 4chan or wherever ? It's awfully paranoid to think that google knows how you feel about them and therefore wants your grandchildren to see gross videos.
46   zzyzzx   2018 Mar 19, 12:44pm  

https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077083-ex-obama-campaign-director-fb/

Ex-Obama Campaign Director Drops Bombshell Claim on Facebook: 'They Were on Our Side'

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