And it’s great. Seriously, it’s just as fast, and I’ve been getting noticeably better (more accurate) results. Especially when I search for stuff about Janet Napolitano

is Google ‘too big to fail?’

Just this past week, in response to some of the things I’ve been reading about the politics of Google, I changed search engines all over to Bing.com and deleted the somewhat intrusive Google toolbar.

I hope they’ll continue to allow me to use their internet.

Including my favorite comic book website, which I can tell you is certainly no bastion of conservative activism. All of it is related to this statsistats.com, whatever that is.

I tried to go to statsistats vis FF and got block due to my security settings, clicked on ‘Why was this site blocked’ button and was given a Google advisory page.

Yesterday both Big Government and Breitbart set off alerts about malware by my Trend Micro Internet Security anti-virus program.

that caused me to hear Sheila Jackson Lee say something about “brehaveral” tendencies here?

Does Google really say anything bad about BigGovernment at all on that page? You posted the screenshot, you should read it. The warning refers to statistats.com, which is shown within biggovernment.com.

This is embarrassing. We just had that huge article about heightening the discourse yesterday, and today we get this technically illiterate persecution fantasy, with a bonus completely assumed motive by Google, which WILL be a source of more scorn and ridicule for our side. Rightly so, for it being on the front page. All based on imagined coincidental timing, a decision not to read the warning, and myopic browsing tendencies. This warning is neither new, nor restricted to BigGovernment.

You can learn what the warning ACTUALLY means, by reading this: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://statsistats.com/&client=googlechrome&hl=en-US

The warning occurs on numerous other sites, BigGovernment is only one of them.. Not the first, not the last, not unique, and not idealogically based.

“Why would Google be marking BigGovernment.com as a page that has malware on it?” Because the underlying ad-serving domain, statsistats.com, HAS HAD malware on it.

Good grief.

Laziness. Go to surfthechannel.com, or any of the other totally unrelated sites Google lists in the warning page. They have the same warning. 30 seconds and you could have saved yourself, this site, and this entire movement some embarrassment. 30 seconds.

How long did it take to write this, post screenshots, respond to comments, etc? Was it easier to assume than to read the details? This is nuts.

to where I had to shut it down so perhaps that is malware I don’t know but it was a pain in the you know what! BTW I use bing too SCREW google!

but that might be due to my anti-virus software(AVG). I would get a screenshot of it but it might not be reflective of all things that google is doing.

I’m going to NOT upgrade to a Droid phone next month.

I’ll stick with the Blackberry

Not sure if that is quite the term, but sounds good.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/days-end-round-up/73853-days-end-roundup

What most likely happened, and it is not the first time, is that enough libturd morons flood google with phishing/scam/attack site claims and google automagically blocked access. Somebody then comes along and emails google a wtf and a human looks at the site and calls bs and removes the block.
The panty-waste libturds have been doing this for more than a year now. They did the same crap to the American Spectator website in October of 2008.

Until a day or two following the “Big Sister is Watching” article on RedState, I was picking up tracking cookies on every visit to the site. I do understand that tracking cookies are a completely different breed of cat than malware, and these are described as “low threat level” by Norton Internet Security (which removes them with no problem). But perhaps due to some glitch in my own system, they do cause my computer to “freeze” and/or “hang,” which is why I started checking for the source(s) by cleaning my system, visiting ONLY a “suspect” site, then again running a full system scan.

The same or similar tracking cookies are/were also latching onto me at Big Gov. Now, I recently did a writing assignment on Behavioral Tracking (for a health communication pub), so I have decent familiarity with the tactic for advertising; and it is possible (but not necessarily probable) that these are of that type. If so, they don’t collect personal data; they tabulate types of sites visited for ad “targeting” so that, for example, if my computer surfs fashion sites, I’d likely get pop-up ads for chic clothing items, etc. But if these are from “Big Sis” on the other hand, my name has probably been run through FOID records or something.

I have nothing to add beyond what Momac said above, but feel compelled to state that it doesn’t do RedState or any other conservative site any credit to front conspiracy theories that pay little heed to how the Internet and anti-spam systems actually work.

Full disclosure: I do consulting work for Google (opinions here my own), and have seen enough speculation about political motivation being behind things you may not like to merit a response.

As to my own experience with this, earlier yesterday I visited Tweetmeme and got the EXACT SAME Statsistats error flag in Chrome, suggesting this is a widespread issue with those embedding that bit of third party code on their sites. To cling to the belief that BigGovernment was somehow singled out is a pretty big leap.

Moreover, a few weeks ago, I tweeted a security error — retweeted by one of the contributors here — that appeared on the DNC’s contribution page that was flagged in Chrome and in no other browser.

http://twitter.com/presjpolk/status/6489656762
re: http://www.twitpic.com/sprqk

So, did we all suddenly leap to the conclusion that Google was out to get Obama and the DNC by depriving them of thousands of dollars in contributions, or was it simply a screwup by the DNC staff? Occam’s Razor.

Not long ago, a post was also frontpaged here claiming Google was suppressing the climategate scandal in the suggestions that appear when you type in the main search box. This was also debunked by a commenter pretty quickly (http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2009/12/03/google-fraud/#comment-3977), and “climategate” was clearly visible as soon as you typed “cl” — though it was intermittent for a few days. The evidence for this claim? “Climategate” happened to be a Google Hot Trend — which begs the question why a particularly determined employee would have suppressed it in the search box but not in a list of trends highlighted by Google itself! Again, Occam’s Razor.

Incidentally, Google also responded to this in its Search help forum, explaining why emerging trends on breaking news issues (often with political implications) appear intermittently in the suggest box:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?hl=en&tid=25112ee0c29cbd01

That forum, and others (http://www.google.com/support/?hl=en) are actually a pretty good place to get a response to your questions and concerns. Or, you can feel free to e-mail me directly (patrick dot ruffini – at – that google email service dot com) to flag it, or find me on Twitter (@PatrickRuffini).

There have been a series of articles on RedState about Google shenanigans, which is why I’m asking for advice. If you don’t want to post my comments here, I hope you will consider emailing me a private reply.

I have a Blogspot website: http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com. My website is conservative, so I focus a lot on Obama. When I search for my articles and graphic illustrations on Google, everything shows up in my results list, whether text or image, WITH THE EXCEPTION of one series of three graphics. When I search for those graphics, my keywords exactly match the images, but still they never appear in the results. They should appear at the top. The only way to get to the images is to follow a text link to the site. You can view the images here: (http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com/2009/11/quo-warranto-to-remove-obama.html). If you do a test image search, you won’t find them.

All my other graphics regarding Obama appear on the search results page.

Is my imagination running away with me? This is beginning to seem suspicious. Is it possible that someone at Google has singled out these images for censorship in their search engine? If so, how do they do it? And if they do, is there anything I can do about it?

I fully understand that you may not approve of the ideas behind my graphics, but I sense that you certainly disapprove of censorship.

Can you advise me?