Part-Time Pundit: Google Attempts to Silence Conservative News on Internet?

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May 5, 2005

Google Attempts to Silence Conservative News on Internet?

Stories of Google's bias in dealing with conservative news sites and ads are many these days.

Michelle Malkin writes frequently on the bias (here, here, here, and here)

Here are some other sources.
- Threadwatch: Google Accused of Political Bias (again)
- I Hate Google: Is Google Red or Blue?
- The Buzz Blog: Google Censors Conservative Ad
- Inside Google: Google Accused of Liberal Bias

That's what I first thought of when I read this Yahoo article on Google trying to patent a method to search on the QUALITY of news (you can read the application here)

Now, we have a company with a history of not giving a fair shake to conservative news and denying conservative ads and they're developing an algorithm they want to use to determine quality of news. Where do you think conservative news sources will rank on this? I think we all know the answer here. This company because of the large amount of control it has because of the dominance of its search engine could begin to try to diminish the voice of conservatives on the net. This would be a liberals dream, because people turn more and more to the internet for news, now they can make sure appropriately vetted news articles from the politburo get top rankings. It looks to me like an outright attempt to regain control of the new media.

Contact the patent office to let them know this method shouldn't be approved and use the petition and contact info below to let Google know they shouldn't try to silence the conservative majority of this nation.

Patent Office Contact Info:

Patent Application 20050060312
Section TC 2100 703-305-3900 703-746-9306
E-Mail: customerservice2100@uspto.gov

Here's Right March's petition and the Google contact info they have.

http://www.rightmarch.com/050305.htm

NOTE: For those who want to take more direct action, here are some contacts at Google:

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043 phone: 650-253-0000
fax: 650-253-0001

Questions on "Ad Approvals" -
http://snipurl.com/ela9

Media Contacts:
Google Media Hotline 650-930-3555 or
press@google.com

Corporate PR
David Krane
650-623-4096
david@google.com

Corporate PR
Steve Langdon
650-623-4950
slangdon@google.com

Advertising PR
Michael Mayzel
650-623-4565
mmayzel@google.com

Technology PR
Nathan Tyler
650-623-4311
nate@google.com

Consumer PR
Eileen Rodriguez
650-623-4235
eileen@google.com

Posted by John Bambenek at May 5, 2005 9:16 PM

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Comments

Very good piece, John...I'm going to link back to it...!

Posted by: Cao at May 6, 2005 4:29 AM

Thanks. :)

Posted by: John Bambenek at May 6, 2005 12:54 PM

Google search is even more biased than their news department. Try searching "Indian, rape" and instead of reading a single entry of hundreds of years worth of accounts of Native-American rapes of European settlers, 99.99% of the entries are about the rape of Indians by white men or occurences on reservations. Through my many Google searches I've noticed a decided anti: Christian, conservative, and pro-life bias! Now I use www.goodsearch.com.

Posted by: geocentre at March 8, 2007 10:37 AM