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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Google Does Evil Up to about 2006 or 2007 Google provided an excellent search engine. It then started to prioritize and present more general results even where one searched for very specific information. It became cumbersome to search for and find details. The situation has since further deteriorated. The Google News search is now completely useless. It delivers the main stream media trash without showing divergent views or opinions. What is the use of a search result page that links to twenty sites with the same slightly rewritten Associated Press story? Google's algorithms now amount to censorship. Since August it downgrades websites that offer alternative views to the left of the pack. Searches that earlier led to the World Socialist Web Site or to Media Matters no longer show these sites, or show them way down the result pages. Traffic to these sites collapsed. This week Google announced that it will censor RT.com, the website of the international Russian TV station: Google will ‘de-rank’ RT articles to make them harder to find – Eric Schmidt. Schmidt, the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, claims that he is "very strongly not in favor of censorship.” That is a laughable. Intentional downgrading a website that has relevant content IS censorship. Down-ranking means that less people will find and come to the site. Its content will have less viewers. It will be censored out of the public perception. The original Google algorithm used the number of links to one site as a measure for its relevance. It was reasonable. In 2004 Google's founder proclaimed: “Our search results are the best we know how to produce. They are unbiased and objective, and we do not accept payment for them or for inclusion or more frequent updating … We believe it is important for everyone to have access to the best information and research, not only to the information people pay for you to see.” Back then the motto of Google was "Don't be evil". When its new parent company Alphabet was launched that motto was discarded. Google has become a prime cooperator and contractor for U.S. intelligence services. The private data it collects from it users is fed the dark-site's databases. But its new evilness is not restricted to data. The company ran a campaign against homeless people near its headquarter in Venice California (video). Google conspired with other tech-giants to keep the wages of its engineers down. Since its beginning Google had some intimate connections with U.S. intelligence services (Long read: part 1, part 2). The relation is a two way street. Google Earth and its map products were, for example, originally created by U.S. intelligence services. They were given to Google for practically nothing. Google makes profits from advertisements within those products. It is providing special versions back to the intelligence people. One can only speculate how much of its user data comes with those versions. Google's smartphone operation system Android collects users’ locations even when location services are disabled. There is no technical reason to do such. There is no reasonable explanation from Google why it does so. Google early on sold out to the Democrats. Eric Schmidt is a Clinton/Obama acolyte. During the Obama administration Goggle's staff had at least 427 meetings at the White House. Emails from the letterbox of Clinton advisor Podesta, published by Wikileaks, show how Schmidt offered to promote Clinton even a year before she launched her campaign. Google paid staff helped her to organize. Maybe Google was just buying goodwill with the White House to protect itself against the various anti-trust lawsuits it is engulfed in. It will do anything to avoid regulation of its monopolistic position and to protect its highly profitable business. It is now, like other internet companies, under pressure to support the war party in creating a new Cold War with Russia. The "de-ranking" of RT.com show that it is willing to do so. It is degrading the quality of its product in exchange for political good-will from warmongers. The best and most benign search engine available now is DuckDuckGo. Its quality is as good as Google's once was. I recommend to use it as the standard and to avoid Google and its products wherever possible. It is evil. Posted by b Comments: s anyone still doubt that we are seeing the end of "golden age" of the internet? It's been happening incrementally for over a year already, and the crackdown is speeding up. In about one month, our President's FCC Chair will end "net neutrality," which I think we all know means certain sites will become inaccessible/unusable. What alternatives are people developing? It would seem we need to have it in place before the end of December, or we best be breeding carrier pigeons. And despite the MSM's in-your-face "bias" and the "leaks" that Google/Facebook were assisting in the coronation of HRC, does anyone still believe that President Trump® is an "outsider" whom the Establishment opposes? Posted by: Daniel Thanks b for raising this urgent issue. I predicted this months ago on this forum. From me the most outrageous proof Google crossing to the dark site was their blatant censorship of the news regarding wars in Libya and Syria, blocking the government SANA site in search results. Then the mask went off, the pretenses were dropped, and the road went downhill including sponsoring the "Arab Spring" bloody revolt in the ME and planning with the Israel operations against Iran from Azerbaijan (Google Ideas group). Now, when the war against Syria is fading away, Google have been removing videos from the terrorists documenting their crimes. It should not be surprising since Eric Schmidt has been a regular at the Bilderberg meetups. I advice moving to viable alternatives, because Google handlers will become more desperate soon, when the war drums start beating loudly: Putin orders Russian companies to be ready for urgent transition to war-time operations BTW Honestly I couldn't care less about those war mongers, liars and manipulators from MM. #ProsecuteMediaMatters One more thing - the stench around Clinton criminal enterprise is not subsiding... MAJOR Player In Hillary’s INNER CIRCLE ‘Suddenly’ ‘COMMITS SUICIDE,’ LOOK What He Knew Bill Clinton is facing NEW accusations of sexual assault by four women while the former president was working with a billionaire playboy and flying on his private jet nicknamed Air F**k One Posted by: PeacefulProsperity There are a couple tricks for getting around the Google censor, and sometimes DuckDuckGo doesn't do a very good job of searching news sites. For general web searches, I quit using Google right after their last algorithm update - it's become a farce. The top 100 hits on most subjects on Google are corporate media boilerplate - no more obscure academic sites, blogs, etc. But, to get all the recent RT stories at the Google News homepage, first set the search preferences to "past 24 hours" or "past week" and then enter: This gives you the RT news output in the order of stories posted (more or less; try 'past hour' for more recent updates). DuckDuckGo can't do this; their news search engine is a bit weak, but their general search engine is much better than Google. This can be done with any news site Google lists; but a lot of blogs that serve as news sites get blocked out there (like moon of alabama, naked capitalism, etc. etc.) As far as being tracked, well, clear browser history and settings every time you think of it, but tracking via the NSA fiber optic cable splitters and the various programs like TRAFFICTHIEF that Snowden revealed won't help with that. Firefox with Noscript helps with many issues, but, well, not everyone has a brand new computer, and older equipment is often more vulnerable. Given the amount of time I spend search wikileaks cables for interesting nuggets. . . Whatever. Also the search engine Ecosia hasn't been so bad. However, the fact is a the corporate media uploads a lot of pages, and so unless you know what to look for, all the search engines will put corporate media high on the list unless you use a few modifiers; for example 'Syria conflict chemical' returns lots of corporate media outlets on all search engines, BUT 'Syria conflict chemical Hersh' should direct to the London Review article, "The Red Line and the Rat Line". Ecosia has it 5th and DuckDuckGo has it 13th, Google has it 13th too. Take away the "Hersh", however, and Google has nothing but corporate media outlets parroting U.S. state propaganda lines - in its general search. That's typical for Google these days - bottom of the barrel. Posted by: nonsense factory Poster Comment: Lot more comments at link. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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