Why Google Is Yanking Negative Coverage Of Powerful People From Its Search Results. (P.S. Google is 100% censored by now! (Except for #LadyGaGa and #Sports) Ive finding my news posts outside of facebook being UN-indexed by googles bot system. I have posted in major newspaper blogs, forums, etc... and finding most of it gone by googles search index . This especially happens when I talking about police systems and the #NSA issues. I believe google-bot system has a set of key term word restrictions and will block factual anti-government issues. I think Government trying to sway lager numbers of naive people perceptions that government works for their interest. This is a big problem) Cont: A European court ruled in May that #Google must remove links to articles from its search engine if the subjects of the post asked it to. The court specified that links could be scrubbed if they were inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed and in the light of the time that has elapsed. When the ruling came down, some worried that it would place too much power in the hands of public figures who wished to have unflattering information—and, especially, press coverage—about themselves hidden. On Wednesday, the Guardian and the BBC both disclosed that just such an occurrence seemed to have taken place with stories of theirs. The BBCs case was possibly the more troubling, since it concerned a former Wall Street titan. The broadcasters economics correspondent, Robert Peston, wrote a blog post highlighting the removal of a 2007 item hed written about Stan ONeal, the former head of #Merrill #Lynch who was hugely implicated in the subprime mortgage scandal. ONeal was the only person named in Pestons blog post, leading to the conclusion that the disgraced former tycoon had lobbied Google to have it removed. Peston was not pleased: My column describes how ONeal was forced out of Merrill after the investment bank suffered colossal losses on reckless investments it had made. Is the data in it inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant? Hmmm. Most people would argue that it is highly relevant for the track record, good or bad, of a business leader to remain on the #publicrecord - especially someone widely seen as having played an important role in the worst financial crisis in living memory (Merrill went to the brink of collapse the following year, and was rescued by Bank of America). The Guardians James Ball wrote that the newspaper had received a notification from Google that six of its articles had been taken down from the search giants European sites. Three of the articles concerned Dougie McDonald, a #soccer referee who was caught lying about one of his decisions in a game and subsequently resigned. The other three ran the gamut from a link to an index of blog articles to a piece about a lawyer in some legal trouble of his own. Ball noted that all of the articles can still be found on Googles American edition, but added that the removal of the articles amounted to a huge, if indirect, challenge to press freedom. He also questioned why Google had been given so much responsibility in the decision to scrub posts. Google later restored links to the #Guardian articles after its decision drew worldwide condemnation. The BBC post was not restored immediately https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=340861276061320&set=a.219297491551033.1073741826.219195584894557&type=1
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 19:06:27 +0000
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