Google Juice

mpawlo writes: "I guess it is time to start using them bookmarks again, since favourite search engine Google seems to be on the verge of Altavista doom and search engine chaos. BBC News reports of Google bombing (often referred to as 'Google juice' by the infamous Crackmonkey subscribers). 'The users have found a way to "bomb" Google to improve the rankings of particular webpages, and ensure a site is near the top of the results for particular search phrases.' There is also the sport of Google Whacking affecting your search results."

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Re:Anti-Semitic Advertisements on Google

[Baldrson]

As a Jew, you'll be gratified to know that I received the following email from Google at Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:20:07 -0800:

Hello James Bowery,

We are not able to run the following Ad Group you have created using the Google AdWords Select Advertising Program:

Ad Group #2, from Campaign #1

Thank you for advertising on Google. At this time, we are not running ads for sites that discriminate against any person, group, organization, or company. We review ads on a case-by-case basis and reserve the right to not run certain ads, or certain categories of ads. Due to our current ads policy, we are unable to run your ad on Google.

Google believes strongly in freedom of expression and therefore offers broad access to content across the web without censoring results. At the same time, we reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion when it comes to the advertising we accept on our site, as noted in our advertising terms and conditions. Please note that the decisions we make concerning advertising in no way affect the search results we deliver. We will continue to show search results for this type of site.

Please feel free to email us at adwords-support@google.com if you have further questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

The Google AdWords Team

As the person with editorial authority over www.FreeOccident.orgI can state categorically that I did not make my editorial decisions based on discrimination or bias against a person, group, organization or company. If there appears to be such a discrimination or bias in content it is indistinguishable from wisdom or other firmly held opinion over which there is guaranteed to be sometimes profound disagreements between people of different experiences as well as interests both conscious and unconscious. The editorial policy of FreeOccident.org is to attempt to expose news stories against which there exists a pronounced bias in the larger culture.Since it is likely that Google was prodded to censorship by complaints from Jews or those who identify as Jews, it is important to note that, prior to thecontroversial article by Dr. Pierce, the front page of www.FreeOccident.com,carried and still carries an article containinga recent quote fromthe prominent Rabbi Daniel Lapin, president of the activist group Toward Tradition

Lapin pointed out that according to published reports, the film's director, Ron Howard, did this at least partly because he hoped to garner Academy Award recognition.

"Given that the Hollywood establishment indeed includes a considerably greater proportion of people of Jewish ancestry than does the American populace as a whole, Mr. Howard was concerned that the Academy would justifiably spurn a film that lionized an anti-Semite," Lapin explained. "To call that a 'stranglehold' may not be polite, but it is no lie, either."

Lapin says he cannot understand why it is acceptable for Howard to "acknowledge this reality, however implicitly; but when Billy Graham did so, long ago and in private, it was somehow different 'chilling and frightening,' in Mr. Foxman's words."

The good Rabbi is no more a "self-hatingJew" than were the Germans who made up the White RoseSociety of WW II Germany "Self-hating Germans". Honor is to be had by those who have the ethics and integrity toopenlyproclaim their conflicts of interest even duringtimes during which it is safer to remain silent.

Why would www.FreeOccident.org proclaim to the world the righteous actof someone who is obviously a prominent Jew if the objective of www.FreeOccident.org is biased against Jews?

No, the hard facts of the situation are that I ama personraised to have no bias against Jews nor any group except perhaps "sinners" as defined quite strictly within the text of the Bible. Outgrowing that training and adopting the typical counter-culture lifestyle of the boomer generation, I encountered other sources of equally noxious indoctrination. Sensitized to fundamentalist indoctrination I recognized the tell-tale signs of dogma. Unfortunately for those not raised in as easily-debunked a tradition as fundamentalist religion, the pseudo-intellectual pronouncements of Boasian political correctness took root in their young minds via the crytpo-theocracies of media and academia. Both are de facto organs of state religious beliefs as they receive large amounts of direct support from the government. In the case of the media, that support extends back at least to the Telecommunications act of 1934 and its "public benefit" provisions ajudicated by the Federal Communications Commission.

Beyond outgrowing that early training and watching, in horror, as highly intelligent childhood friends slowly disintigrated into Boasian droids, additional life experiences combined with relentlessly independent inquiry as an adult, to trigger my old rural Quaker heritage of "Speaking truth to power." You deny Jewish power exists and is under-discussed by mainstream media over which Jews have self-admitted disproportionate influence? How is that possible for you to do with a straight face without virtually schizoid self-deception?

A person who spent a good deal of time in national politics and, having gotten twolaws placed on the Federal books,comes to the emotionally wrenching conclusion that media bias washeavily and unethically biased toward Jewish nepotism and therefore against the public -- specifically the aspects of the public that represented the most enfranchised of prior generations.

This is not the stuff of "bias" or "discrimination" except insofar as knowledge and experience in combination with perception and cognition lead to "bias" and "discrimination".

If my experience had taught me the hard reality that any other entity, including, for example,those of my ownQuaker background, were similarly entrusted with the public interest under the Telecommunications Act of 1934, and hadself-servingly failed in the ethical, if not legal,obligations of that trust, I would have appear "bias" against them. When individuals act as a group, it becomes unreasonable to demand that oneaddress them as individuals unless they are exceptional individuals such as Rabbi Labin.

This is not to say that Google is demanding that web pages to which ads link should address people as individuals, of course. They state that "bias against" "people" as well as "groups" or other entitites are to be disallowed. This is an untennable policy as stated since they are now required to disallow all opinions if those opinions contain any negative connotations.

Quite simply, the fact that FreeOccident.org was singled out in this manner proves the urgent necessity, not only for its existence, but for wider exposure of fora of this nature.