All the free speech blather misses the point raised by Edelman at the end of the News.com story. I don't fault Google for following German and French law, but I *do* fault it for hiding the fact that some searches turn up results which are deliberately incomplete. At the very least, when a search includes results that have been deleted for legal reasons, a notice should appear at the top of the page with a link to details about the legal requirements. Anything less is blatant disrespect for the 'Net community.
"If Google is prohibited from linking to Stormfront, they could include a listing but no link," Edelman said. "And if they can't even include a listing for Stormfront, they could at least report the fact that they've hidden results from the user. The core idea here is that there's no need to be secretive."
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I'm sorry, I missed the "The most democratic search engine in the world" quote on the Google web site. Can someone post that link for me?
This is the closest they come: "PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value."
But boy, do they milk that one. Over and over and over...
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All the free speech blather misses the point raised by Edelman at the end of the News.com story. I don't fault Google for following German and French law, but I *do* fault it for hiding the fact that some searches turn up results which are deliberately incomplete. At the very least, when a search includes results that have been deleted for legal reasons, a notice should appear at the top of the page with a link to details about the legal requirements. Anything less is blatant disrespect for the 'Net community.
"If Google is prohibited from linking to Stormfront, they could include a listing but no link," Edelman said. "And if they can't even include a listing for Stormfront, they could at least report the fact that they've hidden results from the user. The core idea here is that there's no need to be secretive."
I'm sorry, I missed the "The most democratic search engine in the world" quote on the Google web site. Can someone post that link for me?
This is the closest they come: "PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value."
But boy, do they milk that one. Over and over and over...