Google censorship of DU?

[MetaTrope]

Fascinating. I went looking for this post of mine on Google:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3940425

As well as a couple of others which point out that al-Qaeda's U.S. operations started in McCain's state of Arizona...and they're all completely wiped from search engine. They're still on Yahoo though.

I wonder who's making the effort to keep that particular information away from curious eyes?

[DS1]

1. what was your search criteria?

[MetaTrope]

2. Straight quote of the thread title

As well as my forum name, and key text like "al-Qaeda", "McCain" and "Phoenix". Nowhere to be seen in Google.

[DS1]

4. Were they on google before?

[MetaTrope]

5. Yes, I've been using that Google search to re-reference my links

Thought maybe the articles were just removed from DU, but no, they're still here...

[anigbrowl]

11. It's a dynamic system...I very much doubt they manually censor stuff.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. Nice avatar.

:rofl:

[DS1]

8. see SO

;)

[lonestarnot]

3. Well maybe you should have tried the right city Mesa

http://www.democraticunderground.com/

[FreakinDJ]

6. I've noticed DU doesn't rank as high as it used to also

Used to have to avoid all the DU post in google results when searching new information in the past.

Now they don't show up until page 4

[MetaTrope]

9. Here's another recent McCain terrorist thread that Google "vanished"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3945493

What shows up for it under Google search for the thread title is:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS239US239&q=%22Time+to+Revive+McCain%27s+Support+for+the+Dubai+Port+Deal%22

I've been checking around, and supposedly there's no way a third party can remove a link from Google without the cooperation of the owner of the originating site (i.e., make the page unsearchable). So it would seem this is being done by Google's own staff. At their discretion, or somebody else's request? And why these threads specifically?

It will be interesting to see how long this one remains on Google.

[orleans]

10. what the fuck is up with google??

you're right about yahoo.

even on google when you put into the search:
site:democraticunderground.com "John McCain's bestest friends?"
there is NOTHING

if you just google the title "John McCain's bestest friends?" a post from mydd comes up