We often wonder why the average man on the street doesn’t seem to have a clue as to the racial realities of crime. Perhaps its because the major search engines cover up for murderous minorities?
I was researching something earlier and while following up on an older story I found that the link I’d used in the story had gone dead. Nothing strange or suspicious about this, it happens all the time. However, here is where things did get strange, so i took the pull quote from my article and began searching for any other story that remained online, here are the results of the Google front page news search…
Well, that’s a bit odd, so I searched the blogs next…
Well this is extremely odd as I happen to know beyond a fact that if no where else in the virtual world this quote is on my blog, here.
So I searched the exact same quote on Yahoo…
So now my curiousity is piqued, what other stories might Google have censored? So I tried to think of specific phrases I could test…
And…
So at this point it certainly looks as if Google is making some stories that don’t reflect well on minorities just disappear into the virtual ether. And here’s the thing: how can we have the Attorney General mandated conversation about race that this blog is based on without access to honest stories about the realities of race and crime in this country?
I submit we cannot, but perhaps the Pravdans at Google would care to explain their feelings on the subject? I won’t hold my breath.
A way to test your theory is to go to the Wayback Machine on the Internet Archive site and run the query there. If it comes up with former Google results you know your story was spiked in their search results. Also, I think Firefox has an add in that records Google search results and stores them locally so that you can find things that have disappeared from their search results that were once there and that you continue to be interested in. Try that too.
This is good hard work. I know you are doing a lot of searching and reading to put together your paper on deadline.
Thank you sir! And right back at you, its very clear to me how much effort you put in as well.
Let them play games. “G**gle is the #1 search engine” isn’t writ in stone.
Do you have any suggestions? I’ve been trying to give the love to Bing but, honestly, its just not there yet. I waste twenty minutes every time trying to remember how its laid out which is a huge waste of time.