This just in from Larry;
Is Google censoring the blogs?
First do no evil right? Thinking and communicating thoughts is the essence of humanity.
If you Google search Danish cartoons for the images and Lord knows I posted one of those toons back in October and subsequently ran them all afterward, as have myriad bloggers but still you cannot find them on Google search.
Example #1---here is a posting on JihadWatch today
Egyptian editor who printed cartoons has left the country Egyptian Sandmonkey, who has done such important work during the entire cartoon rage episode, and was the first to reveal that the Egyptian paper Al Fagr printed the cartoons in October, now tells us that the editor responsible has left Egypt -- not surprising, since editors who printed the cartoons in Jordan and Algeria have been arrested.
1. Search Google with the phrase “ Egyptian editor who printed” and google gives this result:
Egyptian editor who printed cartoons has left the country
4 hours ago by director@jihadwatch.org Egyptian Sandmonkey, who has done such important work during the entire cartoon rage episode, and was the first to reveal that the Egyptian paper Al Fagr printed the cartoons in October, now tells us that the editor responsible has left..... Jihad Watch - http://www.jihadwatch.org/
2. Search Google with just the word “cartoons” and no result.
Example #2----another posting at JihadWatch today….
Cartoon Protests in Pakistan Leave 3 Dead
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Gunfire and rioting erupted Wednesday as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in several Pakistani cities during the country's third consecutive day of violent protests over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons. Three people were killed, including an 8-year-old boy.
2. Search Google with the phrase “streets in several Pakistani cities” and you get this hit.
Cartoon Protests in Pakistan Leave 3 Dead
5 hours ago by director@jihadwatch.org An update on this story from AP: PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Gunfire and rioting erupted Wednesday as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in several Pakistani cities during the country's third consecutive day... Jihad Watch -
3. Search google with the phrase” Prophet Muhammad” and there are no hits.
Another thing I have noticed is that the number of Google hits for keywords related to cartoons or religion declined right after Feb 8, 2006.
1. Search google with the keywords “cartoons” and “mohammed” and you will see that on Feb 8 there are about 250 hits, but only about 250 hits from Feb 9 to Feb 15.
*Using Google Blog Search
BTW, I printed those toons Bck in October because of the "backstory"
Danish author Kåre Bluitgen had difficulties in getting artists to illustrate his book about Muhammad due to fear of reprisals from Islamic extremists. Jyllandsposten, Denmark's largest newspaper, responded by asking 40 illustrators to make drawings of Muhammad, and published twelve in this Saturday's edition.
Is there something to this, any other bloggers have any dirt on this? Bloggers in the Middle East are risking their lives to get the story out and Google is going into dhimmi mode?
This I gotta know. This really is evil. Pure evil.
More on the Islamists War on the Internet here.
Tell if your Blogger blog has been flagged here. More bad bad Google blog related news, Google buys Measure Map Blog Tracking
Larry rocks!
More examples of Google Blog Search censoring bloggers here
Highlights:
Today's China Internet Hearings
UPDATE: I am happy to report (thrilled actually) that the search under both Google and Google search yielded millions of hits. Larry's experience was with Google blog search.
