Of course the top entry under “global warming hoax” it’s that global warming is NOT a hoax.

But I’m sure all these sorts of things are coincidences.

look something up. Back when Rosie O’Donnell was on the view, being the trufer that she is, she asked that people look up the Bay of Tonnekin, she said “Google it.” My how times change.

look something up. Back when Rosie O’Donnell was on the view, being the trufer that she is, she asked that people look up the Bay of Tonnekin, she said “Google it.” My how times change.

I went to Bing.com and typed in “climate” and climate-gate came up as the SECOND term in the list. Google is manipulating its search engine for politcal reasons.

I’m not sure if this is really a scandal. Bing and Yahoo! do the same thing. It shows when you only time climate and they have it in the hyphenated format as well.

Why would Bing and Yahoo! follow the same pattern? Are they linked to Google?

No need to scare the kids with the deniers foul language and un-truths. It was taken out of context. Polar bears and bunnys are dying.

Don’t listen to the grown-ups kiddies, Uncle Al knows best.

…to discover that the leftists at Google are involved in hanky-panky.

I always enjoy the opportunity to use the term “hanky panky.”

I stopped using them long ago. It really irritated me when news favorable to the Dems would stay up for days on their news page and would be prominently featured. But, if the news was an embarrassment to them, it would either not be there at all, or would be gone within a day, and was invariably hard to find. There is nothing random in their selection of…..anything. They have an agenda, and they have no shame.

I just ran the “climatega” search and there several climategate hits at the top of the search. Of course, they were the results of twitter names or from blogs. No links to what the lame stream media would call “hard news” sites.

Don’t use Googlag.

Use Ask dot Com

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I just changed my default search engine to bing.com

If Google followed its own Net Neutrality principle of transparency, we’d know exactly how these results are selected.

But they don’t.

are no longer bringing up climategate in the suggested search terms. Looks like they’re now doing their part for Uncle Al.

How shameless can they be?

Are they just born without a conscience or what?

I mean if you can muster up the strength to type “ate” at the end of “climateg” Google will bring up all the articles on the scandal you could possibly want.

I thought you might give me credit for bringing this Google malfeasance to your attention. I posted the following in your Google thread yesterday:

“When you start typing letters into the google search box it usually automatically tries to anticipate what you want to search for and “auto-suggest” the most likely searches. This is supposedly driven by frequency algorithms. “Climategate” is one of the heaviest searched terms in Google right now but it does not come up as an auto-suggestion. It did for a while and then it was removed and then it did for a while and it seems to have been removed again. Google is definitely weighing in on the politics.

This has all been heavily discussed over at the Watts Up With That science blog.”

If the year-after-year suppression of Christian holidays wasn’t enough, if the liberal idiocy of the leadership wasn’t enough, if the Chicago-style tactics they use against local governments to extract insanely low taxes wasn’t enough, there’s this.

Folks, switch to Bing. For all the crap Microsoft gets, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is more of a force of good in this world than a billion libtards and their expensive plush jumbo jets parked on government land.

I’ve been trying to get rid of Google, but couldn’t due to search inferiority with competitors. Bing is now at least as good as Google.

a month or so ago talking about Net Neutrality and Google that we could change our default search engines to something other than Google. I did a few years ago and also during some installations you get asked if you want to install Google Toolbar I say no.

One of the comments to me was “Does that include Google Calendar that RedState uses?”.

I guess I’m saying if we are all going to stop using the evil Google product then maybe we should actually stop using the evil Google product.

22,000,000 million hits on climategate, but it’s not worth prompting for, huh?
I saw the same thing on “death panels.” It took them weeks to index that one as well.

Bing (although climate-gate appears with as little as cl)
Yahoo (almost exact same as google)

I doubt that Google has a person sitting down at a keyboard doing this. If that were the case, they would have banned the Michelle monkeyface.

You need to consider what causes those proposed search terms to come up: are they based on frequency of requests, or based on frequency of occurrence of words in that phrase, or just what? There is an algorithm.

I personally wouldn’t have used the pseudo-word “climategate” and if I were to search for this issue, I would have chosen a term that meant something to a word searching algorithm. My guess is that if you search for that particular word, eventually you will get a hit to redstate.com because the word was discussed so much here…. the word was discussed, and not the issue itself.

Frankly the issue is more important to me than the word that was invented by some Pubbawup. (You can look that one up on Google or Bing, and Google will give you a better answer. It has to do with inventing words.)

And his fingers in the scales of justice….

check out recovery.gov
Google has put in a hyperlink choice with ‘recovery.gov’ in blue and underlined
like hyperlinks are.
And…AND right below that,the goog has installed a 2nd recovery.gov choice.
thi one is in a special chartreuse.
I try to use other search engines but over the many years I have used google. I have neve rseen a special hyperlink for a choice and I have not seen govt listing in a special green.
Also remember that the Google header will be changed for lefty and foreign holidays, but not for American holidays.
Check it out for yourself,,,

that google just doesn’t recognize “climategate” as one word.

I just typed in “climate” and “climate gate scandal” is the first thing to come up.

That said, I have my own slightly suspicious google search story:

The other day I typed in Ann Coulter and the first suggestion that came up was “Ann Coulter Playboy” and it led to an obviously photoshopped picture of Ann Coulter’s head on someone else’s bra and panty clad body on a supposed December cover. Found a sight that unravelled the hoax showing the actual December cover that had been altered. And there were postings from the same liberal sight for multiple years – apparently they try this hoax over again every time another December comes around.

Now, it seems unlikely that this would be the most googled term in association with Ann Coulter but then again it’s possible there’s just a lot of liberals who need to get a life.

Between a woefully inadequate Afghanistan strategy, the attempted nationalization of 1/6 of the economy via a “health care reform” bill now being debated in the US Senate, an economy killing energy bill waiting in the wings, the cavalier attitude of our president towards his own personal safety and the dignity of the office of POTUS, and, oh yeah, “Climategate” itself, I’m running kind of low on outrage at this point.

So Google is a shamelessly left-wing, hypocritical corporate entity. Tell me something I didn’t know already. Honestly, is the fact that they have subtly manipulated search suggestions to make it more difficult to find information on “Climategate” a bigger scandel than the fact that the none of the three major news networks has said a single word about it?

When you type “clim,” the top suggested search is “climate gate scandal.”

according to google trends.

They cannot hide it forever.

Oh boy.

So when I try Bing with “climateg” I get “climateguard” and “claimate ground zero” (screengrab).

When I try Yahoo with “climateg” I get “climate guard”, “climate graph”, “climategard windows”, “climatogram” and “climate guard windows” (screengrab).

So I’m sorry to say your worst fears have been confirmed. There is collusion between the three major search engine providers to commit fraud on a global scale by working together to suppress “climategate” from the autocomplete feature! I will patiently wait for your next important article expose detailing how Bing, Yahoo, and Google are all working together as liberal pawns.

Wait a minute. That’s odd. When I type in “c”, yes, “c” – the letter “c”! – in Google News, the very first autosuggestion is “climategate” (screengrab)?!!?

Hmmm. I wonder if Google auto suggest is different for different contexts. I wonder if the vast population of Internet users using Google’s front page aren’t actually doing a lot of searching for “climategate”, but a high percentage of news/political minded people are searching for “climategate” via Google News because that may be a more precise way to locate, you know, actual news about a topic. That sounds like a reasonable explanation, except for the fact that a secret Google conspiracy involving dedicated personnel manually adjusting search results for typed searches related to current events but just completely forgot to adjust the results for Google News too is so much more of a realistic and rational way to explain things.

(No idea if the images will show up, screengrab links included as a backup. I’ll heap praise on you in exchange for bringing back the ability to preview comments before posting).

…if you googled “jobs”

What is the best unbiased search engine to use?

Also, does anybody else notice that RedState has google for their own search engine?

I just typed in ‘cl’ and climategate popped right up, as one word. I use google extensively and have not noticed anything terribly peculiar. I don’t doubt that there is some bias in there somewhere, but have only heard about a few things. Now, I’ m always lookin’ to ‘vote with my wallet’ as the saying goes, but I think this one falls short.
I’m a big fan of R/S and peruse it daily and find many good stories, links and info, but, again, I think this one failed to cut the mustard.
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The creator of this post has done a little bait and switch. There is a reason that his searches don’t give him Climate Gate when he’s using Google. There is deliberate mis-spelling that skews that results.

If you were to type in the word CLIMATE or letters leading up to that word. Climate Gate appears in the top searches. When you type CLIMATEG or more you wont find it as it is a misspelling. There should be a space between the E and G.

Anyone actualy typing these things in would have passed the term CLIMATE GATE long before typing the letter G and knows it.

Go give it a shot, don’t take my word for it.

This appears to me to be a deliberate attempt to gain noteriety here at Red State. I am no fan of Google but if we’re being dishonest with the facts then we have no leg to stand on.

“Climategate’ is not being suggested as a word most likely simply because it is not a word. It is a neologism that may end up becoming part of current dictionaries, but three weeks ago, it would have been a misspelling for “climate gate.” It’s not surprising that dictionary-based systems would not suggest it. It also explains why “climate gate” is suggested, since “climate” and “gate” are words, but are not usually associated with each other.

Get Google stock to tank when the public thinks they’re in cahoots.

I miss Dubya.