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Creationists Manipulating Search Results
reallocate writes: It looks like some Creationists are manipulating search results to ensure websites pushing religion are appearing in response to queries about science. Ask Google "What happened to the dinosaurs?" and you'll see links to Creationist sites right at the top. (And, right now, several hits to sites taking note of it.) Google has a feedback link waiting for you to use it.
The answer is that they're still here, SEO-ing the search results.
Dinosaurs, the ones related to lizards, can be traced through the fossil record to a number of extinction events.
Dinosaurs, the ones related to creationism, can be traced through the search results to the pages they've tweaked for rankings.
Maybe the anti-creationist, anti-Christian witch hunters set this bogus thing up, just to have an excuse to go after the Christians. Something looks bogus, but I'm nowhere near convinced that some church is responsible for it.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
It would be a major national news story. There would be editorials in news outlets large and small. Fox News and the right wing press would call it a terrorist act. There would be hearings in Congress, and calls for laws protecting religion. It would be a three ring media circus.
All truths are not created equal. Some points of view are more equal then others.
Why is Snark Required?
Amazing isn't it ? It's like watching people covered in shit, sniffing around looking for something that stinks.
C'mon guys. you just can't make that kind of shit up. There isn't enough weed on the planet for that. It must be divinely inspired.
Amazing isn't it ? It's like watching people covered in shit, sniffing around looking for something that stinks.
Damn. I don't get that...
Is that a focking premium cable channel?
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
"I find the defendant not guilty. As for Science versus Religion, I'm issuing a restraining order. Religion must stay 500 yards from Science at all times"
"Paleontology (the study of fossils) is much like politics: passions run high, and it’s easy to draw very different conclusions from the same set of facts." M. Lemonick, Parenthood, dino-style, Time, p. 48, January 8, 1996.
And I felt just like waking up from a priest/pastor's best wet dream (sans pre-pubescent kids). Lord Baby Jesus. Fucking politics. I think I laughed for like 2 minutes straight like a nutcase. Imagine voting for your favorite paleontologist for the best excavation. Creationists have THE best comparisons ever. Period.
It occurs to me you knew that and got me to search there anyway, you clever bastard.
1)You can't wash your eyes with soap.
2)You can't count your hair.
3)You can't breathe through your nose with your tongue out.
4)You just tried number 3.
6)When you tried #3, you realized it's it's possible, you just look like a dog.
7) You're smiling right now because you know you were fooled.
8) you skipped number 5.
9)You just checked to see if there was a #5.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
We need to work together to manipulate all search results to lead to whichever xkcd is most relevant to the topic.
DuckDuckGo gave its top result to a fruitcake link saying "Genesis can explain everything...."
Phil Collins or Sega?
It's called "Yahoo! Answers" -- how do people not realize that these answer come from Yahoos?