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Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images [updated]
Mihg writes "Try searching Google Images for abu ghraib, lynndie england, or Lynndie's boyfriend charles graner and note how you don't get any pictures of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners of war. Now try it with some of their competitors, like AltaVista, Lycos, or Yahoo!.
Google used to be able to find them, as is discussed in this AnandTech forum thread." I'm guessing that this is another case of our administration confusing "National Security" with "Politically Undesirable". Update: 11/07 20:18 GMT by P : Google has a reasonable explanation.
Hell yeah! That'd be AWESOME! She's much hotter than Natalie Portman. I love how she poured hot grits down the pants of those prisoners in order to obtain information from them about upcoming terrorist attacks.
... if I do a google image search for "goatse" I get all kinds of nasty results. Certainly those should be blocked as well. They are clearly a threat to national security.
Luckily, everyone can still "Do a Lynndie" to their heart's content.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
I love slashdot. Under 'related links', there's a link for 'Best deals: Censorship' through PriceGrabber.
Sorry, it made me laugh.
Then why do the other search engines still carry it? It seems like Google has something confused and not the government.
:w
If past performance is any indication, I'd suggest "incompetence."
And you can be sure that this will be picked up by the Arab world and will look bad on the US and Western Europe.
And if there's one thing we here in the U.S. really, really hate, it's to look bad in the Arab world.
I can just hear the outcry as it trumpets across our waving waves of grain, echoing from our mountains, skimming across from sea to shining sea: "Google is censoring Abu Graib pics! How will we ever recover our prestige?!"
Please tell me that you're not that retarded. The discussion is about the IMAGE search, not the web search.
-Nick
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
Hellooooo, Obama is a Democrat. Surely the current administration is censoring this as well!
*tightens tin foil hat*
.. we can just use Google's cache of Google's search results.
It's kind of humourous that a regular search will bring up this article as the top news result... just a little irony.
& bt nG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=abu+ghraib
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I just did a Google search for Abu Ghraib. In the "News results" section at the top, the first headline was, "Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images - Slashdot - 2 hours ago".
Spiffy!
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Once Google realised that 99% of searches on Google image search were for "Alyssa Milano nude" they just stopped bothering to maintain it...
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For all the people who for whatever reason still don't believe you, you might also point out that this search still results in over 100 hits.
lol..
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