In March 2015, Google announced that it's going to start ranking search results by THEIR assessment of the site's "factualness."  I've been noticing for years that they've been doing that.  The only thing that's new is they're now starting to admit it.  There are other reasons to beware of Google:

Lying left wing propaganda in Google's TV ad launched December 31, 2014 gives us all yet another reason to beware of Google.

Google's ad repeats the "Hands up, don't shoot" lie that has motivated riots and murders all over America.  The ad starts by saying that we search for good things more than for bad things, then shows many short clips depicting various snippets of the human experience.  Mixed in with all of them is a black man standing in the middle of the street with his hands up.

Low information consumers (the major corporations' favorite kind) will think that it's actual video from the incident in Ferguson MO that led to the death of Michael Brown.  That is clearly false.  It is either video taken during some other incident, or a fictional scene completely staged from the ground up.

This is yet another example of how Google works to mislead everyone, especially their users.


There's a saying in the website business:  "If a service is free, the USER is the product."

Web businesses work like every other kind of business.  Whoever pays the bill is the customer.  In Google's case, the advertiser is the customer.  Users (like you and me) are PRODUCTS to be delivered to the advertiser.

Major corporations do NOT want well informed consumers any more than government wants well informed citizens.  That's why the major corporations are always in bed with politicians - ESPECIALLY Democrats!  Democratic candidates get FOUR TIMES as much campaign money from wealthy individuals as they do even from labor unions!  (Four political science professors reveal this in a published study that can be seen at:  http://voteview.com/jep_BMPR.pdf    Also see:  http://conservativepoliticalforum.com/political-discussion-and-debate/democrats-the-billionaires'-party/ )


This recent Google TV ad is just a chip off the tip of the iceberg of Google's villainy.  Other reasons to beware of Google are:

- Google's willing and secret cooperation with NSA spying on Americans.
- Google Corporation's top executives' attendance at the Bilderberg meetings.
- Google's ongoing effort to control everyone's worldview by controlling what websites Google lets us find.

I've tested it myself.  I checked several webpages containing conservative content to make sure they're still there.  Then I copied the first seven words of the page and pasted them into the search terms box of both Bing and Google.  Bing listed every one of them as number one.  Google never found any of them.  (Or never let me know if Google knows the pages exist.)


I don't completely trust Bing, either.  Microsoft owns Bing.  And it's funny how advertising related to whatever subject I searched for most recently on Bing appears on pages I visit afterward - even pages on COMPLETELY different subjects!

You can try this yourself.  Search Bing (or any other major search engine) for "feminine hygiene."  Then visit pages about monster trucks or football or whatever.  You'll see ads that you NEVER thought you'd ever see on those pages!


Another disadvantage Google is that it limits you to seven word search terms.  Bing (and I don't know if any others) allow more than seven words.

For all the above reasons, I almost never use Google.  Most of the time I use Bing.  Some other search engines you might use are:

Start Page - completely guarantees absolutely 100% privacy.  NEVER gives your information to anyone else.
Ixquick - the original name of Start Page.  Exactly the same site.
Clusty - presents the results of your search in groups categorized by subject.
Mamma - the mother of all search engines.  It's a search engine that searches search engines.

There are others.  Just do a search for the term, "search engine."

Usually, I use Bing.  I think it gives me the most thorough results of any one search engine.  Sometimes when I really want to dig into a subject, I search for it with multiple search engines.  I also do several searches with different sets search terms related to the subject.

I also keep pencil and paper with me at ALL times, so, whenever an idea pops into my head, I can jot down any topic I want to search for, when I get to a computer.


I hope all this is helpful.  One last thing:  I never "Google" anything!  I never use "Google" as a verb!  I "search" for things.

The less we use Google, the fewer advertising dollars they get.  I am convinced, Google is NOT a company I wish to support!

I've been using Bing, (Microsoft) and it's as bad if not worse.

Yahoo sucks too.

Quote from: Dori on July 26, 2015, 11:59:20 AM
I've been using Bing, (Microsoft) and it's as bad if not worse.

Yahoo sucks too.

That really is the problem, there is no real alternative, they either have their own agenda and skew the algorithm to fit, or claim they're different and still copy google's algorithm.

Quote from: Solar on July 26, 2015, 12:07:52 PM
That really is the problem, there is no real alternative, they either have their own agenda and skew the algorithm to fit, or claim they're different and still copy google's algorithm.

It's another form of the left's censorship and media blackout.  You do a search, and 99% of the first pages are left to radical left views.  You almost have to go directly to a conservative news website and try to do a search from there. 

Quote from: Dori on July 26, 2015, 12:14:16 PM
It's another form of the left's censorship and media blackout.  You do a search, and 99% of the first pages are left to radical left views.  You almost have to go directly to a conservative news website and try to do a search from there.

Absolutely right!
Case in point, I tried to find articles about the commie fag Harry Hays, and all the pages google offered were sympathetic to his cause, and I know the real story is out there, the true history, but Google buried it in support of fags and keeping people from learning the true story of him and his pedophile commie friends that started the movement.

Quote from: Solar on July 26, 2015, 12:21:49 PM
Absolutely right!
Case in point, I tried to find articles about the commie fag Harry Hays, and all the pages google offered were sympathetic to his cause, and I know the real story is out there, the true history, but Google buried it in support of fags and keeping people from learning the true story of him and his pedophile commie friends that started the movement.

This is what I mean about how supposedly rich conservatives are clueless.  If they really cared about conservatism, at least there would be one decent search engine out there that was at the very least, even across the board.  It's not that they can't compete.  Is there some internet god out there that would prevent such a thing?

Quote from: Dori on July 26, 2015, 12:49:55 PM
This is what I mean about how supposedly rich conservatives are clueless. If they really cared about conservatism, at least there would be one decent search engine out there that was at the very least, even across the board.  It's not that they can't compete.  Is there some internet god out there that would prevent such a thing?

Yep, Rush always comes to mind.

Searching is an art.

The engines can foiled and outsmarted.  -Via bookmarking or pen-and-paper for writing-down addresses, etc.

The average Conservative is aware of the probability of being snooped-upon.  The left's immaturity has given us the gift of soft paranoia... if we look for sites like commieblaster

http://commieblaster.com/index.html

I can go right to it if I want devious speculation mixed-in with sprinkles of factualness.

I don't think google knows zilch about information-warfare.  I just read an article on why Windows XP hasn't vanished.  -Sheds light on google's limitations as well:

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20150724.aspx     

That's a pretty good resource. Thanks.

I don't know how any of this stuff works, but common sense tells me as long as  the money in this field depends on observing user activity,  security vulnerability is inevitable, I mean built in to the systems.