Google Censoring Search Results

According to an article in World Net Daily (WND), Google is being biased in presenting websites in its search engine. Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs told WND that Google has “sandboxed” her articles about Barack Obama ("Sandboxing" happens when Google strips a website's rankings from its search engine results). Google did this without warning or notifying Mrs. Geller or Atlas Shrugs.

When asked about the reason behind sandboxing Atlas Shrugs website from Google’s search engine, Google spokeswoman Elisabeth Diana told WND, "Atlas Shrugs was in violation of our terms of service. When we are made aware of a potential policy violation, our team of specialists will manually review the site to make sure it abides by our program policies. In this case, we have stopped serving ads to Atlas Shrugs."

Geller believes the reason Google banned parts of Atlas Shrugs website is because of her coverage over Obama. She reported that her exclusive stories about Obama's birth certificate once received 12,000 to 15,000 hits a day, than dropped to single digits over night.

It’s appalling that in a simple Google search one can learn how to make a bomb, remove evidence from a crime scene, do an abortion in your home, as well as watch murders, suicides, and obscene sex footage. But Google decided to forbid material presented by Atlas Shrugs, a news website. If that’s not an attack on freedom of speech I don’t know what is.

[Michael Folkert is an Ag-Econ Major at UNL]