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Gene Lalor | February 26, 2010
“Barney Google,” the long popular comic strip, has been deceased for about 50 years or so. Some feel Google, Inc., the fabulously successful and wealthy internet search engine, should follow suit posthaste.
The reason? Strong rumors have long been afoot that Google is about as objective and unbiased as Wikipedia and regularly directs its millions of information-seekers in the direction it wants them seeking, often to politically correct, liberal-slanted search results.
Google was previously caught with its objectivity and algorithms down in searches dealing with Islam and Christianity.
When you typed in “Christianity is” on a Google search the first results included websites headed ”Christianity is bullsh*t . . . a lie” and “Christianity is absurd and stupid.” When you typed “Islam is,” the returns were historical and informational sites on that religion.
Whether Google was programmed to avoid negative references to the faith of 1.2 billion Muslims out of fear of retaliation, (remember Salman Rushdie?), is unclear but it sure seemed that way, but why would “Christianity seekers” first see derogatory websites pop up?
Also, anyone who employed Google for research on controversial subjects knows that Google recently was big into censorship of what it deemed “hate speech.” It would either re-direct the researcher to more PC websites or posted notices indicating that the sites turned up were biased.
Now Google is under renewed scrutiny in Europe.
According to Reuters,”European Union antitrust regulators are looking into complaints filed by three online companies against Google that may lead to a formal investigation into the search-engine giant’s business practices.”
The three companies are alleging that Google employed questionable ethics in its search algorithms.
Earlier, “British price comparison site Foundem and French legal search engine ejustice.fr had alleged that its search algorithm demoted their sites in Web search results because they were rivals. It said Microsoft-owned Ciao from Bing had complained about its standard terms and conditions:” http://bit.ly/aYVOQa
What’s up with these people out in Mountain View, CA?
Have Larry Page and Sergey Brin succumbed to the temptations of their left coast, left wing corporate home or have they simply gotten so greedy that they would underhandedly steer searchers to their own sites?
Have they scrapped their original mission statement to “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” in favor of politically correcting Google patrons to get the latter to think, believe, and spend as they do?
Have they surrendered to the profit motive in lieu of the information motive?
Information that is accessible would not necessarily be the best and most useful if that information is filtered through a biased Google prism.
Maybe Page and Brin have just lost control of their monster, much as Akio Toyoda seems to have lost control of his car company.
At least Toyota isn’t into proselytizing and propagandizing. That corporation just kills people with sticking accelerators and doesn’t try to twist its “useful” information.
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