{"id":5909,"date":"2011-07-12T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=5909"},"modified":"2011-07-12T17:17:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:17:58","slug":"google-bias-time-for-a-conservative-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=5909","title":{"rendered":"Google Bias&#8230; Time For A Conservative Search Engine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Google%20Bias...%20Time%20For%20A%20Conservative%20Search%20Engine%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>We often fault the main stream media for\u00a0being\u00a0overtly liberal concerning both it&#8217;s \u00a0reporting point of reference and it&#8217;s editing choices. Sometime the criticism is\u00a0unwarranted, but sometimes there is substance to it. Yesterday, I wrote about a blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=5901\">complaining that Republicans are not talking about jobs or the economy<\/a>. I wrote this:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s not that Republicans are not talking about jobs and the economy\u2026 It, well, the same \u2018ol thing\u2026 The media is not interested in what Republicans have to say about it. So, they\u00a0report\u00a0on \u201cThe Gay\u201d thing instead! So, if you don\u2019t dig, you think \u201cThe Gay\u201d is more important, because that is what the media is focusing on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wonder why?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is little doubt that, when it comes to reporting anything that has to do with Conservatives, mass media will invariably focus on more controversial things. Michelle Bachmann versus gays <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/onpolitics\/post\/2011\/07\/michele-bachmann-husband-cure-homosexuality-\/1\">are<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2011\/07\/michele-bachmann-signs-anti-gay-pact-that-says-times-were-better-for-black-kids-during-slavery.html\">big<\/a> on the media circuit (circus?) right now.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m not saying that <em><strong>shouldn&#8217;t<\/strong><\/em> be news, but it will be <strong><em>the only<\/em><\/strong> news about Backmann. Which is why Rauch doesn&#8217;t seem to think Republicans are talking about anything other than gays. And nothing else she does or says will push the gay stuff off the front page, unless it&#8217;s learned that she tortures and eat kittens! THAT would certainly push the gay thing out of the way!<\/p>\n<p>There is another bias out there that gets much less attention, and that is the apparent bias toward liberal subject matter built in to the Google search engine. I encountered it while I was gathering information for the previous post. This isn&#8217;t the first time I had noticed it. Some time ago, the hosting service for my blog had a major crash. My blog was off line for almost three weeks. Naturally, once I regained access to my blog data, I changed services. When you switch server hosting companies, it takes a while for your blog to show up in a Google inquiry. I would on occasion type my blog name into the Google search engine to see what would come up. When Sonicfrog.net finally did show up, I thought the posts that were listed were interesting. They weren&#8217;t based on the most amount of hits to a post or comments that the posts had received, it was based on subject matter. In this case Global Warming.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written a lot of posts about global warming, few of them flattering, but the three posts that have emerged in the Google search are, if you just read the titles, they are somewhat positively supportive of global warming. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CB0QFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsonicfrog.net%2F%3Fp%3D2632&amp;ei=I3IcTprCE5OWsgODz_iSBQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5kTcVtuNfpBDis3PojriVdLSnig\">Global\u00a0Warming\u00a0Fixed!<\/a> reads one title. The second one from the Google search is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=3&amp;ved=0CCMQFjAC&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsonicfrog.net%2F%3Fp%3D2849&amp;ei=I3IcTprCE5OWsgODz_iSBQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFcnyrXHFNdAoybtFxpslhidHGTAQ\">Huge Climate Story &#8211; Honesty!<\/a>. The third on the list reads favorably if you leave off the first bit of the title &#8211; Failed Meme Alert &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=4&amp;ved=0CCkQFjAD&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsonicfrog.net%2F%3Fp%3D4737&amp;ei=I3IcTprCE5OWsgODz_iSBQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNG1V4EcZxn7pFJw4HjRpIiKY2uirg\">Hottest Year Ever!<\/a> . Even though many of the other 200 sum-odd posts\u00a0concerning\u00a0 global warming and climate change have had more hits, they don&#8217;t come up on a Google search. Those have title such as <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3198\">More Little Deaths For The Hockey Stick<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4989\">The Case To Disolve The Corrupt IPCC<\/a>. One climate post that got many hits and comments is called <a title=\"Permanent Link to Why Climate Scientists Should NEVER Be Trusted With The Fate Of The World.  Pt 2\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4804\">Why Climate Scientists Should NEVER Be Trusted With The Fate Of The World. Pt 2<\/a>. I think &#8220;More Little Deaths&#8217; garnered the most comments of any post I&#8217;ve ever written, except for the one where I got into a huge blargument with <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2391\">Patterico<\/a>. \u00a0Patterico is a well known blogger with lots of traffic, yet that doesn&#8217;t matter for Google Search. \u00a0I&#8217;ve had a number of posts linked to one of the most highly\u00a0trafficked bloggers on the web, <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\">Instapundit<\/a>. \u00a0Yet &#8211; that also holds no\u00a0import\u00a0in the Google metric.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me back to\u00a0something\u00a0I noticed yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you type in the term \u201cRush Limbaugh Jobs\u201d into the Google News search engine, instead of\u00a0getting stuff that Rush actually said about the economy and jobs\u2026 You get\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?aq=f&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;client=ubuntu&amp;channel=cs&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=rush+limbaugh+jobs#client=ubuntu&amp;channel=cs&amp;q=rush+limbaugh+jobs&amp;um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;tbo=u&amp;tbm=nws&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wn&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&amp;fp=fe2c35b88e05c717&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=843\">What Media Matters and other liberals say about Rush Limbaugh\u2019s take on the ATF and his new line of tea<\/a>! \u00a0Because, you know, Rush Limbaugh NEVER talks about the sour economy or\u00a0stuff\u00a0like that. Here are the result from a regular Google search.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?aq=f&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;client=ubuntu&amp;channel=cs&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=rush+limbaugh+jobs#client=ubuntu&amp;channel=cs&amp;q=rush+limbaugh+jobs&amp;um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=nw&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&amp;fp=951974dc3fe285a2&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=843\">Not much better<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My blog-pal Dan at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaypatriot.net\/\">Gay Patriot<\/a> has chimed in and adds supporting evidence to my observation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> I too have noted Google&#8217;s bias with Media Mutters and Talking Points and other leftie sites receiving prominence.  When I did a search for where&#8217;s the Democratic plan to save Medicare, the top hit I got was the Daily Kos<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which, in turn (some would say &#8220;finally&#8221;) \u00a0brings me to the main point of this post. I haven&#8217;t checked Yahoo or Bing yet, and they may be more info-neutral, but since Google is by far the most dominant of the search engines out there, if Google is truly favoring left \/ liberal biases in its search matrics, is it time for Conservatives to launch their own search engine service? I mean, this is why Conservative talk radio and FOX news have been so successful. There was an open niche, a political vacuum, \u00a0just waiting to be filled! It&#8217;s why <a href=\"http:\/\/dailykos.com\/\">Daily KOS<\/a> became so popular from it&#8217;s launch during the later part of the Bush years. There was a huge amount of political pressure building on the progressive side that was ready for an outlet, and KOS was a perfect vehicle for that. Is Google creating the same political void that some enterprising Conservatives will no doubt try to fill?<\/p>\n<p>I would hate to see it on the one hand, because I think something like a search engine should be as politically neutral as possible. But, if Google continues on the road it&#8217;s on and continues to structure its searches based on things of liberal importance&#8230; \u00a0well&#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised\u00a0if someone will soon fill the gap with a conservative based search engine.<\/p>\n<p>PS. If this happens, I want everyone to remember&#8230; It Was My Idea! I Demand Some\u00a0Monetary\u00a0Compensation For This!!! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Google%20Bias...%20Time%20For%20A%20Conservative%20Search%20Engine%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>We often fault the main stream media for\u00a0being\u00a0overtly liberal concerning both it&#8217;s \u00a0reporting point of reference and it&#8217;s editing choices. Sometime the criticism is\u00a0unwarranted, but sometimes there is substance to it. Yesterday, I wrote about a blogger complaining that Republicans are not talking about jobs or the economy. I wrote this: &nbsp; It\u2019s not that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,56,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}