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Optimizing News Sites For Google News
malibucreek writes "More trouble for Google News? Yesterday, it was Google News censoring stories for China. Today, the Online Journalism Review details a potential conservative bias in the site's algorithm for news search results. The story also includes some details about how Google ranks stories on its news page. Turns out that on Google News, backlinks do *not* improve search positioning."
Google: another system to game. Of course it's being distorted by a "conservative" bias. "Conservative" really means "corporate", the ideology of the 1950s "corporation man". Corporations have money and time to game any system for profit, and no reason not to. Their competition, regular people, don't have the resources or organization, and have human characteristics like "fairness" and "conscience" holding them back. Any parity between corporations and people speaks of only the innate power of the people.
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That's right, you know Dan's going to be hitting the streets looking for a job soon enough. Let's make sure we keep Dan employed, and put him in charge of censoring the news for google...hell he could just make it all up for them. :-)
By Lenin, it is all so simple, cannot you fools see it?
[The preceeding was a rhetorical question. After the revolution, your answer will be checked to see if it conforms to "socialist civilized norms", and those in need of re-education will be sent to mine uranium in the "re-education" camps.
That is all.
Since Google CEO as well as Yahoo CEO endorsed John Kerry for President.
This is a Radcon technique, to assert something without proof until it is believed to be a fact.
"Without proof?" Remove yourself from under your rock and open your eyes. Emerge blinking into the light of day. There's a whole world out there, ya dumbass.
By the way, is "radcon" another word like "neocon," a modern-day slur? Why don't you just cut right to the chase and call me an uppity nigger?
The poster should be asked to provide proof for such a statement.
How about this? How about you get off your lazy ass and go read? How about you go take responsibility for yourself and get informed? You think Answer is just the bee's knees? Then you go read their press releases for yourself. But remember, you're looking for information that they try really hard to conceal here. You're going to have to read more than just the topic sentence of every paragraph. You're going to have to get down to the stuff where they say that the Baath government of Iraq was better than the government of the United States because at least the Iraqi government wasn't capitalist. That kind of thing.
You've got responsibilities here. If you want to sit there on your ass and say, "Your statements conflict with my prejudices, therefore you are obviously wrong," go right ahead. But don't be smug about it. At least be honest with yourself. At least admit that you're just cramming your head right back under that rock because your own little illusions about the world are oh so much more comforting than all those scary facts.
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