More Orwellian stuff courtesy of Obamites:
And, if you think this is just paranoia, then you haven’t been keeping track of Obama’s relationship with Google. Consider this – Google’s CEO (Eric Schmidt) stumped for Obama in the presidential race. Now, he is an adviser for Obama.
Then, there’s that little love triangle with Obama, Google, and YouTube. wherein we witnessed first-hand how Google/YouTube would delete the anti-Obama videos for even the smallest of infractions while giving the pro-Obama videos all the leeway in the world. Now, Obama is using YouTube as his primary upload site for his President in-limbo fireside rants.
Then, there is this very telling tid-bit: one of President in-limbo Obama’s first members picked to head up his transition team came from Google’s philanthropy division – Google.org.
H/T – Yonason
Google ‘censoring’ anti-Obama bloggers?
Writer claims Internet giant banning stories that expose president-elect
November 28, 2008
By Chelsea Schilling
WorldNetDaily
Is Google censoring anti-Obama stories?
Pamela Gellar of Atlas Shrugs claims the search engine giant has banned her groundbreaking articles about Obama – a technique many people refer to as “sandboxing.”
“There was no warning, no notice, nothing,” Gellar told WND. “They have basically sandboxed me.”
“Sandboxing” happens when Google strips a website’s rankings from its search engine results. According to some theories, this happens to new websites when Google puts them into a holding area known as a “sandbox” until the site gains credibility.
However, Atlas Shrugs is not new, and Gellar believes her stories have been intentionally suppressed by the Internet giant – especially ones about President-elect Obama. She said her exclusive stories about Obama’s birth certificate that once received thousands of hits every day will not come up in Google word searches.
“I was in the top five search results before the story got legs,” she said. “These stories drove 12,000 to 15,000 people to my site every day.”
But now a November earnings report from shows her Google clicks and revenue flat lining since Nov. 20. Daily page impressions dropped from an average of 20,000 and 45,000 to single digits – overnight. Also, her Google images hits are slowed to only 4,720 since that day, while Yahoo and other search engines list them in the hundreds of thousands.
“The media gives blogs the silent treatment,” she said. “The only thing we have is these searches. The Google word search is gone – all gone. When you are in my business, that’s how you build readership.”
On July 4, Gellar featured a story about a board-certified forensic expert who declared Obama’s online birth certificate a “forgery” and an “obvious fake.” She attributes most of her problems with Google to that report.
“I think that it’s the birth certificate story,” Gellar said. “All of the sudden, my numbers were down by 10,000.”
She has also featured reports on Obama’s support of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and cases of alleged campaign finance fraud involving his campaign. Gellar believes Google is censoring her stories because it objects to their content.
“It’s a freedom of speech issue,” she said. “Who are they to decide what should be searched? They don’t like what I’m running so they ban me?”
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