tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post242486973444069505..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Google No Like!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38810876969057499052013-06-22T11:04:03.815-07:002013-06-22T11:04:03.815-07:00Going back a few years, if one typed the word &quo...Going back a few years, if one typed the word "asshole" into a Google search engine and then hit "I'm feeling lucky", a picture of George W. Bush appeared on your screen. Probably just coincidence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40790742755593766142013-06-21T11:31:46.019-07:002013-06-21T11:31:46.019-07:00Gov't-corporate crushing free speech, yet anot...Gov't-corporate crushing free speech, yet another violation of our rights. The gov’t constantly violates our rights.<br /><br />They violate the 1st Amendment by caging protesters and banning books like "America Deceived II".<br /><br />They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by allowing TSA to grope you.<br /><br />They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars.<br /><br />Impeach Obama.<br /><br />Last link of "America Deceived II" before it is completely banned:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/America-Deceived-II-Possession-interrogation/dp/1450257437Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67620246856269872342011-03-14T17:34:07.086-07:002011-03-14T17:34:07.086-07:00I just noticed today that autocomplete does sugges...I just noticed today that autocomplete does suggest Pat Buchanan... with the second suggestion being "pat buchanan racist."<br /><br />Indeed: Stay classy, Google!Gilbert Ratchethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13448063418910836848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5434965858115716712010-02-03T13:50:32.213-08:002010-02-03T13:50:32.213-08:00Seems that Buchanan is back on Google autocomplete...Seems that Buchanan is back on Google autocomplete.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20317261469990112262010-01-28T05:18:08.068-08:002010-01-28T05:18:08.068-08:00'Conspiracy nuts are like religious nuts. They...'Conspiracy nuts are like religious nuts. They can't see past...'<br /><br />You are Cass Sunstein and I claim my five pounds.sj071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51136868832533423552010-01-26T18:28:19.661-08:002010-01-26T18:28:19.661-08:00"Conspiracy nuts are like religious nuts. The..."Conspiracy nuts are like religious nuts. They can't see past the surface of things to the truth underneath so they make up wacky theories that reveal more about themselves than what they think they are analyzing"<br /><br />Conspiracy deniers are motivated to see to it that average Joes don't look too deeply into the depths of things, so they make wild accusations of insanity in hopes that average Joes won't dare look too closely at the Theorists' evidence.Curvaceous Carbon-based Life Formnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34425889524908996922010-01-26T13:23:19.311-08:002010-01-26T13:23:19.311-08:00Conspiracy nuts are like religious nuts. They can&...Conspiracy nuts are like religious nuts. They can't see past the surface of things to the truth underneath so they make up wacky theories that reveal more about themselves than what they think they are analyzing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12280354897447917092010-01-26T12:47:34.538-08:002010-01-26T12:47:34.538-08:00Absolute nonsense.
How tightly is your tinfoil ha...Absolute nonsense.<br /><br />How tightly is your tinfoil hat screwed on?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17407088811273605472010-01-26T08:08:50.803-08:002010-01-26T08:08:50.803-08:00Ithink I should also pointout that Microsoft has b...Ithink I should also pointout that Microsoft has bought (or maybejust merely partnered with) Yahoo! search that's why they deliver (almost) everything with the same results.Ivan Lapishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05642333724487675019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75282856781616468102010-01-25T18:30:46.108-08:002010-01-25T18:30:46.108-08:00spacehabitats: I've heard it claimed (whether ...spacehabitats: I've heard it claimed (whether truthfully or not I don't know) that the prompts are based not on frequency of hits but frequency of searches. Are people really still searching for "Ron Paul Bruno," though? I wouldn't think so, but you never know.James Kabalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02335302113772004687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18155734869616564732010-01-25T10:33:24.688-08:002010-01-25T10:33:24.688-08:00Very interesting.
I tried playing with another con...Very interesting.<br />I tried playing with another controversial political figure and typed in "Ron Paul".<br /><br />There doesn't seem to be any attempt at dropping him down the memory hole, but the suggested searches and their order seems to be rather bizarre.<br /><br />"ron paul bruno" (referring to an embarrassing incident in which comedian/satirist Sacha Baron Cohen manages to fool Dr. Paul into granting him an interview)came in fourth out of ten on Google's list. This was in spite of the fact that it had by far the fewest total hits (about one half of the next lowest total).<br />"ron paul bruno" doesn't even show up as an option on Bing or Yahoo's lists. And, BTW, neither does "ron paul racist" (1.14 M hits) which ranked eighth on Google ahead of "daily show" (10.10 M) and "health care" (4.05 M). <br /><br />I can't conclude from that alone that there is conscious animus here. But results like that, when applied to a controversial political figure, certainly should at least raise some suspicion.<br /><br />It would be one thing if this "feature" seemed to be helpful in any predictable manner. But how does it "help" a user to suggest a search phrase whose key word (i.e. "bruno")does not even appear until the fourth search results' page?<br /><br />Instead it seems that Google is trying to "help" its users to become aware of an incident that normally would have dropped into the obscurity it deserves.spacehabitatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540280499274649411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90276856183913417622010-01-23T20:27:29.291-08:002010-01-23T20:27:29.291-08:00When Google blacklisted the word "climategate...When Google blacklisted the word "climategate" from their suggestion list, I switched to Bing and have not looked back. At the time both Bing and Yahoo suggested it after only a few letters, while Google would suggest "climate Guatemala" after you typed in all 11 letters. I resent having some drone at Google censoring results.<br /><br />It's hard to believe that md's explanation applies to "climategate." Yes, it appears as a suggestion now, but back when the scandal first broke it did not appear, and didn't until a day or so after Google came under heavy criticism from some of the skeptic blogs.<br /><br />This new example just confirms to me that leaving Google was the right thing to do.Allennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34074615731628241642010-01-23T19:52:40.950-08:002010-01-23T19:52:40.950-08:00Pat Buttram? Really, that's a dude's name?...Pat Buttram? Really, that's a dude's name? It sounds like the stagename for a gay porn star.robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-617874863690804392010-01-23T16:44:55.523-08:002010-01-23T16:44:55.523-08:00I don't have a handy bookmark lying around but...I don't have a handy bookmark lying around but I seem to remember reading that US Army is in charge of providing electricity for the Google.com?<br /><br />Hopefully it's not that time of the month for SteveStasi.<br /><br />p.s.Google + DNA + Singularity... a lot of fun.sj071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28570213759732603812010-01-23T15:18:14.286-08:002010-01-23T15:18:14.286-08:00Now I want to know why Rob the Bouncer gets this t...Now I want to know why Rob the Bouncer gets this treatment. "rob the bouncer," "standing on the box," and "clublife" all fail to get anything in the dropdown.<br /><br />WEIRD. <br /><br />http://standingonthebox.blogspot.com/<br /><br />I just can't imagine whatever morons are blocking Buchanan being savvy enough to spot a blog like Rob's as being a threat to their kampf. So what gives?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-832615547854248832010-01-23T14:54:43.321-08:002010-01-23T14:54:43.321-08:00If a disaffected crank with programming capabiliti...If a disaffected crank with programming capabilities is responsible for blocking Pat Buchanan from Google, I would nominate Charles "Little Green Footballs" Johnson, or one of his minions, as a likely suspect. Buchanan is his bete noire.Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4074756132274011832010-01-23T13:50:46.111-08:002010-01-23T13:50:46.111-08:00"It's good to note this kind of thing, bu..."It's good to note this kind of thing, but we should remember that Google is a private company that is giving us an amazingly good product for free. This is one of the ways they can get a reward from us. It reduces the value of their product slightly, but I don't begrudge them the right to try to influence our politics."<br /><br />Google isn't providing services for free. We pay for Google through everything we buy since Google collects ad revenues and commissions from just about every company. As you all know, companies add the cost of advertizing to their products. So, whatever you buy, you're paying for the product plus the cost of ads. Since much of the ad costs are going to Google, we are paying for 'free' services from google. Similarly, what government provides us for 'free' has actually been paid by us through taxes--or will have to be paid by our children. <br /><br />And even if we were to argue that Google is providing all this good stuff for free, what will be the social, intellectual, and political implications of ONE company dominating so much news, information, wealth, influence, clout, and leverage? <br />Google isn't one of the many players on a level playing field but is becoming to the whole of internet what Ebay was to internet auction--the only player in town. <br />With every 'free' stuff it gives us, it gains more power. It gains power over us, and we grow more dependent on and more obedient to Google. <br /><br />Big Geek Is Not Only Watching You but Goading You, Manipulating You, Playing Tricks on You, Nudging You, and Fudging You.So Gooish!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47160211776308655832010-01-23T08:01:27.021-08:002010-01-23T08:01:27.021-08:00I wonder if there is some feature where people can...I wonder if there is some feature where people can complain or do ratings or something that affects this? I have seen the rating wars on Amazon. Also there is "Google bombing". Is it possible that some group that doesn't like Pat B much (say the kind of Koskids that Googlebomb) has exploited something within Google's algorithm. Just a possibility that is other than some Google employee manually filtering out Pat.<br /><br />Also, this seems to be happening enough so that people are starting to note it (for Pat, Climategate, the arguably validly censored terms, etc.) so that it is starting to become a detriment to Google. Don't know what they can do though. If they go complete uncensored, do they get taken of Library computers?TCOnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40158543237188257132010-01-23T07:41:14.135-08:002010-01-23T07:41:14.135-08:00Google News has 6 returns for "Ellie Light&qu...Google News has 6 returns for "Ellie Light"lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7995419579526455222010-01-23T05:26:39.459-08:002010-01-23T05:26:39.459-08:00Good answer md. Let's not be too paranoid: may...Good answer <a href="http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-no-like.html?showComment=1264134117172#c4731266626882713887" rel="nofollow">md</a>. Let's not be too paranoid: maybe it isn't Google that's evil, it's us!<br /><br />But Google does need to be more open about their algorithms and about their forbidden term lists.*<br /><br />Google <a href="http://searchengineland.com/islam-is-blocked-by-google-suggest-bug-32921" rel="nofollow">recently said</a> the "islam is" problem is a bug. It works fine for me on google.com accessed from Paris, France: <a href="http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&hl=en&q=islam+is" rel="nofollow">"islam is" autosuggest list</a>.<br /><br />A link can be used to see the suggested list for any typed sequence. We can see that the "bug" remains for other sequences: <br /><a href="http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&hl=en&q=pat+buc" rel="nofollow">pat buc</a> vs. <a href="http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&hl=en&q=pat+bu" rel="nofollow">pat bu</a><br /><a href="http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&hl=en&q=i+hate" rel="nofollow">i hate</a> vs. <a href="http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&hl=en&q=i+ha" rel="nofollow">i ha</a> or <a href="http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&hl=en&q=i+love" rel="nofollow">i love</a><br /><a href="http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&hl=en&q=adolf+h" rel="nofollow">adolf h</a> vs. <a href="http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&hl=en&q=adolf" rel="nofollow">adolf</a> vs. <br /><br />*this idea of a "list of all items that cannot be listed" is nicely <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_paradox#Russell-like_paradoxes" rel="nofollow">paradoxical</a> here. Suppose there's something we want never to appear anywhere... Surely we need <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum" rel="nofollow">a well-documented list of such things</a> to appear somewhere!Kai Carverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15104699147862191024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88829815285970199682010-01-22T22:26:17.012-08:002010-01-22T22:26:17.012-08:00It's good to note this kind of thing, but we s...It's good to note this kind of thing, but we should remember that Google is a private company that is giving us an amazingly good product for free. This is one of the ways they can get a reward from us. It reduces the value of their product slightly, but I don't begrudge them the right to try to influence our politics. <br /><br /> Of course, it would be better if they were transparent about it. Or maybe this is just a perk of people who work at Google--- that if you're one of the drudges, you're allowed to fiddle with the searches some so long as you don't get too outrageous.Eric Rasmusenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11961143224971735752010-01-22T19:22:40.363-08:002010-01-22T19:22:40.363-08:00"Whiskey said...
My guess is that Buchanon, ..."Whiskey said...<br /><br />My guess is that Buchanon, nutty lunatic Ron Paul, McCain and his buddy Grahmnesty, and the rest will get tossed aside by a wave of White Middle Class populism,..."<br /><br />Yeah, because I always confuse Buchanan (learn to spell the man's name, damn it!) with McCain, or Lindsay Graham with Ron Paul. Why, they're all practically indistinguishable. You are truly delusional, Whiskey.<br /><br />Idiot.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59928671398025853442010-01-22T17:51:46.680-08:002010-01-22T17:51:46.680-08:00Commentary should publish an article titled "...Commentary should publish an article titled "Why Jews Hate Buchanan".Tanstaaflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10809764986911255031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49985060414449921732010-01-22T15:47:57.894-08:002010-01-22T15:47:57.894-08:00Whiskey sez;...since Obama too, hates Jews and Isr...Whiskey sez;<i>...since Obama too, hates Jews and Israel</i><br><br />Mmm, Obama got bankrolled by Soros who presumably does not take goy seriously, he was managed by Axelrod and his secretary is an Israeli officer. But I guess he hates Jews?? I'm annoyed Whiskey thinks I'm so stupid. WTFheadachenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50262656941765934342010-01-22T14:58:53.626-08:002010-01-22T14:58:53.626-08:00This reminds me of the situation at Borders Books,...This reminds me of the situation at Borders Books, where the conservative or politically rightwing books will be hidden away, on top of shelves, etc. at election time, and books of the other kind (the anti-Palin "Going Rouge" is a good example)will be featured prominently. I'm not so sure its some kind of company policy...do the lower ranking Google employeees (i.e. middle management)have the ability to influence Google searches the way a bookstore assistant manager can determine book placement?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com