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RebelYell

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Tue Nov-09-04 10:43 PM
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Google censors vote fraud stories

Google Censors VoteFraud Stories

BreakForNews.com, 9th Nov., 2004
by Fintan Dunne, Editor

Search engine Google is ignoring thousands of news stories about the alleged theft of the U.S. presidential election. Google's news coverage is driven by a sophisticated search engine, which scans news stories and groups them by content. You can test this system manually by typing search terms into Google News.

For example, the keywords "Arafat" and "coma" currently yield just over 7,000 news stories. And the search term "Sunni+election+boycott" shows almost 1,900 stories.

The sheer volume of stories on those topics is why the related stories are grouped together on the front page of Google News --right now. However, the Google News database has over 10,000 stories for "presidential+election+fraud".

And there are over 5,600 stories for "Florida+election+fraud".
And there are over 2,000 stories for "presidential+election+stolen".
And there are over 1,000 stories for "presidential+election+rigged".

Despite this, there is no coverage of the election fraud issue on the Google News front page or even it's US News page.

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http://www.breakfornews.com/articles/GoogleCensorsVoteFraud.htm

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ThoughtCriminal

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Tue Nov-09-04 10:48 PM
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1. Until and unless mainstream media picks it up

And give it front page treatment, I don't expect it to show up on Google News.

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GAspnes

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Tue Nov-09-04 10:51 PM
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2. you have no idea how Google's main page selects news

But I'd guess it's weighted towards MSM news (absent Google bombs).

And since you don't know what you're talking about, I reckon I'll ignore your blathering.

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RebelYell

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Tue Nov-09-04 10:55 PM
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5. Correct the errors in the article

I'm interested.

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RebelYell

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Wed Nov-10-04 08:43 AM
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6. Hello? Tell me how Google works

I'll send an email to the website.

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Old and In the Way

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Tue Nov-09-04 10:52 PM
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3. Check this site out

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

It visually shows the most active news stories by fontsize. I can't even locate a "voting election questions" blip on the scope. Pretty sad.

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Must_B_Free

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Tue Nov-09-04 10:52 PM
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4. try clusty.com - too new to censor

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