Tag: Google

It’s All in the Algorithm

Last week, MRC researchers found that Google buried US-based right-leaning news outlets on the 14th page of search results. It appears that the tech giant is still at it, as it continues to hide right-leaning outlets in the depths of search results. [More]

Speaking from personal experience you have to go to page 5 of my “News” tab results to find anything of mine from AmmoLand, meaning no one ever will. I’m sure letting my Firearms News stuff appear is just an oversight, especially after seeing what Facebook just pulled.

[Via Michael G]

SEO Irregular

While looking for a link to my Points question, I noticed something again today I’ve been meaning to mention for a while: Type in “Sipsey Street Irregulars” on Google and the first link that comes up goes to an SPLC post about it closing down after Mike’s death.

That means either algorithm ranking results have been manipulated to make one post outweigh Mike’s life work, or the majority of Mike’s readers didn’t regularly help him promote his work by sharing links. Noting how many of his thousands of readers didn’t step up when asked to, I’d be hard pressed to pick a reason.

Noting the importance of that work — and the way it’s now being misapplied exactly as he warned against — either reason, censorship from without or apathy from within, is one hell of a demotivator.

Gemini Rising

Google Gemini invented fake reviews smearing my book about Big Tech’s political biases – Google Gemini invented fake reviews meant to discredit my book about political bias in Big Tech [More]

That goes beyond GIGO and into hallucination and libel territory.

Then again, I was checking to see how the work was propagating and ran across “Meet Preston,” and he doesn’t seem to have me embezzling checks from anybody…

Brought to You By…

I’m trying to figure out if it’s my cookies and browser history causing this or the subject matter of the videos I’m trying to access, but more and more every time I try to watch a gun influencer on YouTube, Mark Barden’s showing up first. Is this happening to any of you?

As with Manuel Oliver, as sympathetic as we may feel, his “solution” is antithetical to freedom and unacceptable, and his loss does not give him a claim against our rights.

Starting off the video with these ads undermines the presenter’s work, especially with people who may not be informed and may be otherwise receptive. So I have some questions, because I don’t know how YouTube ad policies work.

Is it intentional placement? Does the client request it? Does the YouTube account where the ad is being placed have any say? If so, do they allow it because monetization is monetization? If not, could they reject it?

Conversely, would a “gun rights” group be able to have their ads placed at the start of gungrab group videos? Has anbody ever seen that happen?

And is this a directed policy by Google/YouTube to deliberately muddle messages they want to suppress, and inject their own?

[Video link submitted via Jess]

Not Exactly a Resume Builder…

Well, that didn’t take long. After less than 12 hours, Google has taken down the site with public information about which student groups endorse Hamas terrorism. [More]

You can’t stop the signal.

Related UPDATE

You can’t absolve yourself, either. I wonder how many are here on student visas, and how it helps “secure the Blessings of Liberty” to allow terrorist sympathizers to exist among us.

[Via Michael G]

Meanwhile, Over at the Ministry of Truth…

Leave ‘neutrality behind,’ Soros-funded UT Austin journalism program says – Tech giants Google and Facebook are among financial supporters [More]

Hey, it’s not like they actually observed journalistic ethics back when they still pretended they had them…

“The morals of trousered apes” … I like that.

[Via Michael G]

Welcome to the Party, Pal

The New Way YouTube is Going After 2A Content [Watch]

As opposed to the “old way”? I had a genuine original news video, non-monetized, mind you, taken from a car, of ATF trying to fire Fast and Furious whistleblower Vince Cefalu that got blocked by Google-owned YouTube after it started getting noticed on bogus “copyright” grounds because you could hear the radio playing a song in the background:

There’s a reason I went through all the contortions to leave Google–owned Blogger and find a platform safe from censorship, and since I don’t do ads here, there’s nothing to demonetize.

Screwing my findability on work published elsewhere is another story.

[Via Jess]

No News is Good News?

According to the Google News tab, the only “new” story on the Jason Kloepfer shooting is a local public radio piece that doesn’t introduce any new information I haven’t already covered in a series of exclusive reports months and weeks ago:

You’ll note my AmmoLand stuff is nowhere to be found in Google News.

That’s intentional. It used to be. Then they started suppressing results. Now it’s completely gone.

(They still include my Firearms News articles, but look for that to change any day.)

People Also Propagandize

I was looking for some ATF financial information for an article I’m drafting and happened upon this “helpful” information “courtesy” of Google:

People also answer, but the key here is “which people”?

I wonder when Google is just going to come right out and openly adopt “Be evil”…?

Disappearing Act

We have so far preserved more than 1.9 million “ephemeral experiences” – exposure to short-lived content that impacts people and then disappears, leaving no trace – that Google and other companies are able to use to shift opinions and voting preferences, and we expect to have captured more than 2.5 million by Election Day. [More]

Let me guess: “Baseless.”

[Via Michael G]

Truth Social Exclusion Another Example of Google Censoring ‘Bad Thinking’

Does anyone see Google “moderating threats of violence” when they come from a regime that’s implementing radical social changes being pushed by the global elites? Does everyone see the way cultural conquerors are doing the censorship job that the government cannot get away with (yet)? And is no one concerned that these alien-minded punishers of “wrong thinking” and gatekeepers of “right thinking” feel confident enough to publicly drop the mask and distance themselves from the “Don’t be evil” pledge they initially found helpful in gaining public trust (and political concessions on “content providing,” with content denial conveniently left unaddressed)? [More]

What’s the opposite of “Don’t be evil”?

Another Hate Cri… uh… Never Mind

Atlanta police got 911 calls: Someone was spray-painting swastikas on the rainbow crosswalk in the predominantly gay Midtown district. The LGBTQ community, not only in Atlanta, but nationwide, was prepared to launch a 24/7 media circus over this atrocity, but then police released surveillance video of the suspect, and suddenly the activists got so quiet you could hear the crickets chirping. [More]

Do you even need to click on the link to know why?

And now is as good a time as any to bring up a tangentially-related point. For an earlier post today I wanted to make sure I was spelling “Requiescat in Pace” correctly so looked up “RIP” on Google. This was the second hit:

Reflecting on how Google makes sure “Traditional American” sites are buried to make them unlikely if not impossible to find, and how non-“woke” ideology is demonetized or outright banned on those platforms, it’s curious to see the values they give top billing to. It’s also curious that I could go right to that video with no “potentially sensitive content” warnings.

The thought also strikes that this is all being done because those pulling the strings find it useful for everyone to accept that the biggest problems facing minority communities are systemic racism and white supremacists.

[Via Michael G]

Doing the Job Government Can’t Do — Yet

They tell me that “your content has violated our Misleading Content policy. Please visit our Community Guidelines page blah, blah, blah”. Whatever. [More]

I confess I know next to nothing about this blog– I saw a post about censorship over at WRSA and that caught my interest seeing as how that’s exactly the reason I had to go through all the hassle of abandoning my Blogspot home of 17 years and starting this continuation blog. I see he, too, is the victim of a new Google censorship focus, which means no matter what he does, there are no assurances that work he spends portions of his life on won’t be summarily removed with no warning and no recourse.

Fortunately, that most invaluable of resources, the Internet Archive/ Wayback Machine* had his back on this one. I don’t see what the problem was with it, but then again, I saw no problem with what I posted either.

*  I’ve been throwing some money their way once a year because I do find them so indispensable. Case in point: All my Examiner “Gunwalker” stuff would be gone from the net if not for them. And doesn’t that tell you just about everything you need to know about the DSM…

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