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Google Image Index Just Not Updated

Posted by michael on from the breaking-news dept.

We ran a story earlier today about the lack of Abu Ghraib photos in Google's image index. We now have a response from Google stating that the image index simply hasn't been updated recently, as well as a fairly convincing demonstration from a Slashdot reader: Rahga writes "I put together a page that counters the 'Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images' story. It is the tale of a Morgan Webb picture on images.google.com that's been driving a ton of traffic to my webserver 7 months after it was removed." The Abu Ghraib story broke in April 2004 (and officially became a non-story on November 2, 2004), so Google's index is indeed quite far behind.

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  1. E'4! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sta[gnaNt. As Linux

  2. Slashback? by schmiddy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Whatever happened to that feature "Slashback", where updates to older stories would all be posted together in a condensed form.

    I know this is probably a little offtopic and I'll get modded as such, but I'd very much like for this feature to be brought back. I don't think an update to a few-hours old story like this demands its own front page story -- especially when the main story even says "Update" and links to Chris D's comment. Same goes for the "X prize paid" story.. why should it be news that the X prize group actually paid up the money, they've publicly acknowledged on their site that SS1 won the prize for some time now.

    Keep the clutter off the main page and save it for real stories.

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  3. Re:non-story? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I completely understand that. But a vote for Bush is a vote against human rights. It wasn't true in 2000, but it is true today. He is ignoring the geneva convention and siding with the bigoted folks against a fellow group of humans. It is the same thing as when the Baptists broke apart because they could't stand to be in the same room as a nigger.

    If one could not vote for Kerry, that does not mean that one had to vote for Bush. 1 or 2% shift to independents would have still likely given bush the election, but he would not have a mandate.

    I am sorry, but in the same way that bush labels all liberal as people who waste money and are soft on crime, I feel perfectly willing to label all Bush supporters as haters and soft on drugs and willing to sell thier sell out thier own country if there is a profit in it.

  4. Where's The Apology?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I swear if I see this comment in metamod, I WILL mod any troll or flamebait as unfair. All the idiotic people who modded this down are blind. Blind, and afriad of conservative values and logic. My kingdom for mod points! AARRGGHHHHHH!!! Stupid /. groupthink! I need a cigarette before I break something ....

  5. Re:Where's The Apology?? by Goaway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Snuff out the trolls, and you'll find a site filled with zealots and closet luddites and technophobes.

    If it isn't aggressive Microsoft bashing or Linux apologetics ("I don't WANT software that's easy to use, and you're and idiot if you do!"), it's either doomsday prophecies about or belittling of the latest technological advances.

    I can only hope this is because the actual intelligent people have long since given up on the site.