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http://www.searchengineguide.com/senews/007796.html

9% of 10,000 english words censored. That's pretty stiff.

Including such gems as ...
renewable, reopen, repay, replica, reportedly, repression, reproduce, resemblance, resemble, resign, resignation, resigned, resilience, resonant, respectable, respective, respects, retain, retard, return, reveal, revocation, revolutionary, rewritten, rhythmic, rick, rightly, rights, ring, rivalry, robbery, role, rosemary, roughly, routine, rubbing, ruins, runs, rupture, ruthless, satan, satisfying, sausage, save, say, scare, scared, scarf, schedule, scraps, screenplay, secluded, segment, segregation, sent, sentence, sentimental, separate, serious, sessions, setback, seventeen, seventeenth, seventy, sexy

Why do we allow these guys to continue living in the US when they support this kind of behavior? They should go live in china where they can disappear in the middle of the night, put in prison for practicing religion, or arbitrarily have all their property taken. Right now we let these weasels (and it's not just google) take the benefits of america while shipping jobs and money out of the country and supporting america's enemies.

And america is really just a placeholder for "western democracies". (i.e. french companies selling nuclear weapon technology to japan, british companies selling secret electronics to china, etc. etc.)

"There's some buzz moving around the blogosphere that speculates on whether the left-leaning ideology behind one of the most popular search sites on the Internet may be tainting their ability to provide unbiased results"

Does trying to not be evil make you a commie, nowadays. So presumably commentaters like yourself hold the oppposite view, lets do evil while making money.

6. You can make money without doing evil.

Google is a business. The revenue the company generates is derived from offering its search technology to companies and from the sale of advertising displayed on Google and on other sites across the web.

was Re:Censorship is not uncommon from Google.

Google has long history of removing sites it considers different from what the majority of its workers think. Since it is a non-US government entitiy it sure has the right to do that; and yes censorship is not the correct word for this subject.
Since google does it already, when its works want to promote a certain way of thinking, what is really wrong with its customers trying to force them, ie protest, that they think the company should do something they want, and if they can get enough support probably force the company to do so?

funny how the article didn't read like a shill piece but seemed rather objective. Every fallacy known to man? Perhaps you should lay off the hyperbole.

Regarding windows search, it took me all of a few seconds to find a column dated January 2004 that discusses it. Didn't read it but maybe you should: http://www.searchengineguide.com/hotchkiss/2004/01 12_gh1.html

Who's the shill here?

Many conservatives have stopped using Google because of a perceived bias against conservative blogs and news sources. Many have turned to ask.com and dogpile.com (which uses google) as viable alternatives. Here's a right-leaning analysis and a more impartial analysis.

Google has complained of "hate speech" from conservative sites when removing them, but usually the speech is from comments left by users, not the stories themselves. And google continues to news index Jihadist sites from the Middle East, which are rife with anti-semitic hate speech and propaganda, as well as US leftist sites like dailykos.com and democraticunderground.com, which contain the same type of hate speech found on right wing sites, only these sites are from the left.

In addition to this, Google has been accused of refusing to run conservative ads and it's pretty well known that 98% of political contributions from Google employees went to liberal candidates and causes, including over $1 million to Moveon.org.

Many people concerned with human rights (left and right) are appalled by Google's partnership with China's Communist government, which forces google to censor search results.

The Google Sandbox

Who cares about the hardware, let's see the algo ;)

This is funny, for sure, but there's a grain of truth there. Longhorn's FS search capabilities are pretty amazing from the demos (including some hands-on time) that I've seen.

Microsoft had a booth at last year's Borland Developer's Conference, and had basically built a prototype of their file system search running on top of XP. The way it works is actually pretty well described in this interview: http://www.searchengineguide.com/beal/2004/0204_ab 1.html.

Not rocket science, necessarily, but it was very impressive to see it working. Hopefully the KDE developers will take notes.

This is a difficult question to answer, but the answer is full of totally unrelated semi-googlewhacks and curious links.