Google hires shrub neocon as VP

[rainbow4321]

Looks like the search engines we all use to expose the neocon crap are being invaded.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/24/google_neocon/

The company that prides itself on "Doing No Evil" isn't taking any chances with its latest executive appointment. Dan Senor, the company's new Global Communications and Strategy VP, has a CV guaranteed to have Register columnist Otto Z Stern firing a celebratory fusillade skywards from his compound in New Mexico.

A former Senior Associate at the Carlyle Group, Senor was briefly Scott McLellan's deputy as White House spokesman before becoming head of the the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq's information department. The White House web site bills him as Senior Advisor to Presidential Envoy L. Paul Bremer III. Fox News hired Senor as a panelist in February. While in Iraq Senor showed his loyalty by going jogging in a Bush-Cheney '04 tracksuit.

Not everyone is impressed. "I have come to associate his triangular, brush-cut head with an unceasing stream of bullshit. He's Ari Fleischer without the charm," writes one grump. "Hiring this guy is a repulsive move."

An impressive resume, for sure, but one perhaps more useful to a company building a military task force than a search engine. And it'll be fascinating to see the reaction of the French, with whom Google is locked into some extremely sensitive negotiations, to Senor's brand of special diplomacy.

[TwentyFive]

1. Google became Target #1 for the neo-cons after the election

I remember that Google gave much more money to Democrats than rethugs.

And yes...it seems that the only way to find out what's happening in America is through the foreign news outlets.

[me b zola]

2. What better way to hide all the documents they want to keep out of sight

Are there any comparable search engines?

[Jim Lane]

5. Google alternative

Yes, there are alternative search engines. I prefer the Yahoo! advanced web search to Google's because you can target a search more precisely, seeking, for example, a particular word in the URL and a particular phrase in any part of the page. With Google, you can search the URL or the whole page, but not both simultaneously.

Here's an example of a Yahoo! search result: http://search.yahoo.com/search?_adv_prop=web&x=op&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-top&va=democraticunderground&va_vt=url&vp=freedom+fries&vp_vt=any&vo_vt=any&ve_vt=any&vd=all&vst=0&vf=all&vm=i&fl=0&n=10

That gives you all DU pages that mention "freedom fries". I don't think you can do that on Google.

The URL for the Yahoo! advanced search page is: http://search.yahoo.com/search/options?fr=fp-top&p=

If you prefer the simpler search form, it's here: http://search.yahoo.com/

On the other hand, you should note that BuyBlue rates Google higher. The Yahoo! officers and PAC contribute to both Democrats and Republicans; Google has no PAC, and its CEO contributes to Democrats. http://www.buyblue.org/detail.php?corpId=25

[leftofthedial]

3. google hires professional liar as VP

and I thought it was just their sales people who lied

[bleedingheart]

4. Neocons = Bad for Business

Spoiled rotten brat neocons are the type that feel that success is their birthright rather than having to work for it.

So I would expect them to completely screw up Google...