I'm not Googling anymore........

[savemefromdumbya]

Google is "eager" to work with the Republican Party and has boosted its presence in Washington, D.C., according to Roll Call.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Roll_Call_Google_eager_to_work_0914.html

[villager]

1. okay -- good alternatives to Google?

I'm willing to bookmark another search engine right now!

[Jamastiene]

11. Yahoo is pretty decent. n/t

[President Jesus]

21. ...whose CEO is a Bush contributor!

Good advice. :eyes:

contribution report: http://www.newsmeat.com/ceo_political_donations/Terry_Semel.php

[Jamastiene]

34. Perhaps then we should all just fold our arms

and do nothing, buy no more food, drive no more cars at all, search on the internet no longer, watch no more television, can't use the phones either. If we seriously want to avoid using everything that the republicans own, then we will have to do just that; fold our arms and do nothing ever again. I don't see how we can survive if we take that plan of action. Maybe we should quit trying to avoid things they have a hand in and start taking a proactive step by spending purposefully where companies do things we want to see done. Something tells me we would get further that way. I can't remember the last time money went to Yahoo just because I was using it. If I don't buy anything through the use of Yahoo, how is that supporting them?

[question everything]

33. As is ask

http://www.ask.com/

(used to be Ask Jeeve, I think)

[trumad]

2. use Ask.com

It's better...

[lonestarnot]

4. ask.com it is!

:toast:

[savemefromdumbya]

28. is it safe?

[lonestarnot]

37. Is anything safe these days?

[lonestarnot]

3. Sad, me either!

What alternative search engine are you going to use?

[deaniac21]

5. DU is working with Google....

[Red Right and BLUE]

8. More info, please?

[Jamastiene]

14. If you look at the ads up top, while they are loading,

you will see that they are Google ads.

[deaniac21]

15. The administrators told us all about it when they started taking

money from google. Ask them.

[Red Right and BLUE]

22. I don't see them.

They're probably blocked by my Adblock. And I give money to DU, so that's fine with me. I'm not going to overlook google helping GOP's keep seats just because they have ads here.

Thanks for the explanation.

[Beelzebud]

6. Have fun.

[Red Right and BLUE]

7. This doesn't surprise me.

I've always though Google News smacked of right-wing slant. But I will definitely stop using google now.

[datasuspect]

9. kicking to see other people's opinions

[kenny blankenship]

10. So have you stopped working with Microsoft products yet?

Curious to see how deep the committment really is around here.

[savemefromdumbya]

18. trying

[CabalPowered]

12. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Google a big supporter of net neutrality

?

[AndyA]

13. Google is not as good as it once was. Ask.com is better.

I have several websites, and I can tell how often they are spidered by my server logs. It could be Google doesn't like my sites for some reason, but I do have several unique pages that aren't anywhere else, and they show up more easily on other search engines, when I search for something specific on them that can't be found elsewhere.

I'm using Ask.com more these days, and so far I like it very much.

[keepCAblue]

16. Fuck Google

Just sent an email to their press team expressing my abject disappointment and advising them I'll not be using their search engine ever again. Have also removed the google search tool from my browser as well. Hello, ask.com!

[President Jesus]

17. check out Google CEO's campaign contributions

link: http://www.newsmeat.com/ceo_political_donations/Eric_Schmidt.php

yeah, a real neo-con, huh?

[savemefromdumbya]

23. you've calmed my nerves a little but...

what are they up to?

[RandiRhodesArchives]

35. question

How can this person who's their CEO give OVER $2000? I thought that was the cap? Did I miss something?

[RangerSmith]

38. Since when do the facts matter?

All you got to do is talk some trash and people will leap right on the bandwagon and start talking trash right along with you.

[NYCGirl]

19. Looks like they're promoting NET NEUTRALITY, and trying to get GOP

incumbents to vote for it, going by the excerpt:

On Wednesday, the company, with TechNet, will co-host its first-ever Washington fundraiser, on behalf of Rep. Heather Wilson (N.M.), one of the most endangered GOP incumbents and a supporter of Google’s position on “net neutrality,” the key Internet regulatory issue that got Google entangled with the phone and cable companies. EBay, the online auction company, is also a co-host.

[Red Right and BLUE]

24. Thanks 17 and 19

Points well-taken.

[savemefromdumbya]

25. I hope that's it?

[Vidar]

36. I still like google and what I know of their politics.

[peacetalksforall]

20. It's one of those damned days. This news is awful, if true. So we go to

ask.com and then learn they have done the same thing? There is something about being traded on the market and having stockholders with few ethics that is harming this country. Excessive prosperity? Capitalism to the extreme is really disappointing.

[Zavulon]

26. I have always used Excite and still do. Google can eat me.

Dogpile is pretty good too, though.

[Rosemary2205]

27. Oh for peats sakes.

this black and white "with us or against us" Bushit invading DU has just got to stop. -- Aren't we better than this?

You know what, I wish Bushco and the Bushettes would go crawl back under the rock they came from as much as anyone. And I'd love to yank control of government back from the neoretards as much as anyone, but geesus people, Google has a RW slant? Come on.

[savemefromdumbya]

29. lets hope not

[flowomo]

30. agree with you, for Pete's sake....

Posted by ESC on April 15, 2004

In Reply to: Re: Origin of phrase posted by ESC on April 15, 2004

: : What is the origin/menaing For Pete's Sake?

: From the archives:

: Biblical origins. Think of St Peter. Think of the omnipresent medieval church and think of hitting your thumb with a hammer. You can't swear, else the local priests will have you up before the Bishop and the Lord alone knows what the outcome of that will be, so you exclaim, in appropriate tone of voice, "For Saint Peter's sake" and carry on erecting the shelves. This phrase was amended to "For Pete's Sake" in later, less religiously oppressive, times.

: This is called a "minced oath," a substitution of a less offensive word.

FOR PETE'S SAKE - The phrase is simply a polite version of a common and profane expression involving the name of Christ. We'd surmise that the original 'Pete' was St. Peter." From "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris. Substituting less offensive words - like Godfrey Daniel for the other GD - is called a minced oath.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/30/messages/1785.html

[savemefromdumbya]

31. Pete or not

my search engine has changed

[Swamp Rat]

32. How about developing a script that repeats a Google search of "goatse?"

... under Google 'images.' :D :puke: