Saturday, July 11, 2020

Google Declares Me Guilty of Thought Crimes, Sends My Blog Posts to the Memory Hole

Google has a great search engine when they're not squelching conservative and GOP (not the same thing) content. I recommend using DuckDuckGo; here's why:

Oh, I just discovered the reason I couldn't find my own blog post on Google. And, interestingly, my blog is hosted by Google and has been since 2004.

To put it bluntly, Google appears to be deleting search results that criticize its use of algorithms to enforce totalitarian political bias. Looks like I hit a nerve.

What's next? Is Google going to start deleting blog posts with which it disagrees?

Never do a news or politics search on Google. Use DuckDuckGo if you want the truth.

Hat tip: BadBlue Uncensored News.

22 comments:

Dan Ryan Galt said...

Thanks. I try to avoid Google whenever possible. They apparently are a front for the Ministry of Miss-Information. I pray for our Republic.

pj said...

This shines a bright light on some shady stuff from Google. Thx for the share!

Anonymous said...

GOOG is the stock symbol for those interested in calls or puts.

Unknown said...

I propose a million man armed march against Google for freedom of speech. If they do not allow freedom of speech I recommend the arms be used in defense of our freedoms. We should start with the owners of google.

directorblue said...

@8:19: I can't advocate any of that shyte.

Anonymous said...

A good first step would be to send Google's Indians back to India - including Seattle's Sawant. I certainly don't want their "behavioral experts" subverting our news, searches, or election.

Anonymous said...

Ive used DUCKDUCKGO for years.......

Taqiyyotomist said...

I remain surprised Google let's your site exist at all.

Doom said...

What else they definitely do is screw with spelling and grammar on old posts. I used to have originals I could compare. A few dead computers later and no evidence remains. So, yea. They let the flying monkey brigade loose to hack and slash... at least on smaller writers.

Mel88 said...

I'd be interested in seeing if it makes a difference if you got a SSL certificate.

John Bragg said...

I'd archive and download before your stalker at Google remembers that google owns blogspot

crankyoldbaldguy said...

Upvote Duck Duck Go. Also try the Brave browser if you're not familiar with it. I've been using it for about 8 months, has an interesting history, is privacy focused.

Timotheus said...

Your search on google gives results now. But still don't trust Google.

heresolong said...

"Is Google going to start deleting blog posts with which it disagrees?"

It's been happening for years. More than one author that I follow had their whole blogs deleted without warning.

You could move to Wordpress, but they just started doing the same thing.

You could self host, but then the hosting company announces that you need to find a new host because reasons.

Anonymous said...

I've been using Duck Duck Go for a year or so. Glad I left Google and all their security problems.

Anonymous said...

It's back in Google's results now. Someone figured out that they got caught. I wonder how many times they don't get caught.

Anonymous said...

"Google has a great search engine when they're not squelching conservative and GOP (not the same thing) content."

I beg to differ. Their search engine is garbage, even without the bias against Conservatives. Things I know are still online, and could easily find years ago, often no longer appear in the results. Often things I didn't ask for are present, even taking precedence over much more relevant material.


And it isn't just Google. They have all deteriorated to the point of being next to useless.

But, yeah, their anti-Conservative bias is one of the most prominent features in their junk algorithm.

Mike Hendrix said...

Hey Doug, you really want to give me a shout at my e-mail address. Trust me.

Helian said...

It's easy to confirm what the author claims in this article. Just do a search for any conservative content on Google, then repeat the search on DuckDuckGo, Bing, or any other search engine for that matter. He's anything but an isolated case. Google's censorship is massive and pervasive.

Anonymous said...

Lookup Ungoogled Chromium as a browser. It's Chrome without Google. You'll thank me.

Susan's Husband said...

Interesting. Did a bit of testing and it looks like it might be related to search string length.

As noted, the original search yields no results. But these searches do work

* site:directorblue.blogspot.com skews autocomplete results
* site:directorblue.blogspot.com skews autocomplete to protect
* site:directorblue.blogspot.com skews autocomplete to protect democrats
* site:directorblue.blogspot.com google skews autocomplete
* site:directorblue.blogspot.com how google skews autocomplete
* site:directorblue.blogspot.com how google skews autocomplete to

This search fails -

* site:directorblue.blogspot.com how google skews autocomplete to protect

There doesn't appear to be any particular word that fails the search. Basically it goes up to 5 consecutive words in the search then fails at 6. I recommend trying it yourself to verify my results.

That said, this seemed plausible enough to take the time to experiment.

Anonymous said...

The Chrome browser is a product of Google, and, as such, has as much respect for your privacy as you would expect. That is, none. However it is a fast and efficient chunk of code.

Brave is based on Chrome, with all the spy routines removed. Ads are blocked by default, but if you want to allow them, Brave has a mechanism in place where you get paid to watch them. And it's as fast as Chrome.

Firefox can be configured to be as privacy-sensitive, but Brave is that way by default.

Use Brave to access DDG, annoy Google.