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Google Nonlisting, Hiding, or Decimation Of Links

by Tabulator
some of numberless abuses by Google
Google Nonlisting, Hiding, or Decimation Of Links

One day after criticizing Google's partner Wikipedia on this forum for its
prowar bias, Google listing of links for the author already truncated to 70,000
links was further decimated to 5600. Among the remaining 5600 links antiRomney
articles were prominently featured. In general, antiwar, environment, prison
rights, minority rights, animal rights, socialist activists and poets find their links are not
fairly reflected, are hidden or eliminated altogether from lists. Vegetarians
and vegans who request vegetarian restaurant listings in a certain city might
find a steakhouse prominently featured as first in the list. Those who ask
for the number of casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan find 2009 or 2005 articles
listed first. There is a matrix of warmonger media which includes
Google, Wikipedia, and Facebook, a social network which eliminated 850,000 Boycott BP page
members. Google was
founded by Sergei Brin now a billionaire, whose work at Stanford was funded by
your tax dollars funneled through the CIA. Google Earth cooperates with the US military
and in addition spies on people around the world, though the European Union has
filed lawsuits. One NYC poet said that Google Earth did not stop at building walls
but went through her window.


Google scanning minors' emails without their consent

http://blog.zwillgen.com/2012/11/16/lawsuit-against-google-for-scanning-minors-e\
\
mails-without-consent/

Google buying facial recognition to further invade privacy

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57525666-93/google-confirms-its-buying-facial-r\
\
ecognition-firm-viewdle/

Google pays Authors Guild 125 million dollars in settlement

http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/125-million-settlement-in-authors-guild-v-g\
\
oogle/

At least 20 lawsuits have been filed re Google adwords
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericgoldman/2012/10/22/google-defeats-trademark-chal\
\
lenge-to-its-adwords-service/

American Society of Media Photographers v Google
http://asmp.org/articles/google-settlement.html#.UOYXkVbiGq0

Australian defamation lawsuit lost by Google
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20153309

Google sued for selling people's search inquiry log to third parties

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/google-sued-for-violating-the-privacy-ri\
\
ghts-of-millions-of-americans-105719403.html

Gmail Lawsuit

http://www.webpronews.com/google-accused-of-violating-your-privacy-again-2012-10

"Courthouse News reports that Google is being sued over Gmail as the plaintiffs
in the case, Brad Scott and Todd Harrington, accuse the search giant of
violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act. The law protects citizens'
communications from being intercepted by third parties without their
permission".

Google settles out of court with Rosetta Stone

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-business/post/rosetta-stone-settles-\
\
trademark-infringement-lawsuit-against-google/2012/11/01/0e95755c-2441-11e2-ac85\
\
-e669876c6a24_blog.html

Museek considering Google lawsuit

http://www.diamondstarmedia.com/blog/diamond-star-medias-business-associate-deba\
\
ting-lawsuit-against-google/

Vringo sues Google

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/vringo-google_n_2083873.html

Google pays 22.5 million dollar fine

http://ftc.gov/opa/2012/08/google.shtm

Google's attempted global monopoly of web links

Google gives prominent placement to fast food, butcher and drug company funded
Richard Berman's links.


•"Google will be bound not to seek court orders against competitors' use of
certain "standard-essential patents" it owns."
•"Google has accepted certain limits on the terms it can require programmers to
accept in order to have their software access to Google's advertising database."
•"Google has promised to allow website publishers to opt out of having their
content included in Google's specialized pages without opting out of having
their content listed in Google's main web search."

30.12.2012 00:30

The following comment was placed on http://indymedia.org.uk

It was a reply to http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/12/505089.html

I am glad this issue has been raised. I have run an independent news website for
the past 12 years.

The site includes a free links listing service where visitors can post their
own links to their websites in a comprehensive links directory.

I stipulate that these links are free, are placed by their respective owners,
and all links automatically include the tag 'rel="nofollow"' as requested and
required by Google. Regardless, this has not stopped Google from threatening
people who place links on my pages.

Over the past year I have received emails from persons requesting removal of
their link from my pages as they had been 'penalised' by Google.

Google appears to consider that only Google or affiliate search engines are
'authorised' to maintain a directory of website listings and links and anyone
else attempting to provide a free links service is doing something wrong.

If there is someone out their with legal standing who would like to pursue this
illegal activity in a court of law then I have all the required evidence for
such a case.

newsmedianews
Homepage: http://www.newsmedianews.com/list1index.shtml

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orangeinks.com


Larry Page Google CEO

Matthew Cutts mattcutts.com sometimes answers questions about Google's
selection of links

Google staff



Eric E. Schmidt 57 yrs, ericschmidt
from Mountain View CA
Google Engineer CEO Chief Executive Executive Chairman Of Google ...
Biz Stone 38 yrs, biz
from San Francisco CA
San Francisco, CA | Palo Alto, CA | Berkeley, CA
Google Wellesley College Internet Software Engineer ...

Paul S. Otellini 62 yrs
from Kenwood CA
Tahoe City, CA | El Dorado Hills, CA
Intel Corporation Google Intel Corp. CEO ...

Kai-Fu Lee 46 yrs, kaifulee
from Beijing
Microsoft Carnegie Mellon University Google Cosmo Software
.
John L. Hennessy 59 yrs
from Stanford CA
Palo Alto, CA | Mountain View, CA
Stanford University Google Stanford University Hospital COO ...

Danah M. Boyd 34 yrs, zapophenia
from Cambridge MA
Berkeley, CA | San Francisco, CA
Intel Yahoo Google Macromedia Microsoft Research ...

Hal R. Varian 65 yrs, hvarian
Hal Varian, from Ann Arbor MI
Danville, CA | Lafayette, CA
Google Uc Berkeley Professor Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ..

Alex Ward 31 yrs
Long Beach, CA
Gamers Vanguard Supernews Wasted ...

Brad Fitzpatrick 32 yrs, bradfitz
from San Francisco CA
Google Programmer Founder Hacker ...

Tim A. Armstrong 41 yrs
Mountain View CA
Riverside, CT | New York, NY
Google America Online AOL ...

John K. Doerr 60 yrs, johndoerr
Woodside CA
Woodside, CA | Menlo Park, CA | Redwood City, CA
Intel Sun Microsystems Intuit Google Amazon ...

Yul J. Kwon 37 yrs
Yul Kwon, from Palo Alto CA
Stanford, CA | Harbor City, CA
Google Survivor Rm Roseville Galleria Stanford University ...

Arthur D. Levinson 62 yrs
San Francisco CA
Cupertino, CA | Burlingame, CA
Google Apple Apple Inc. Genentech ...

Jason B. Fried 38 yrs, jasonfried
Chicago IL
Deerfield, IL | Tucson, AZ
37signals (google It) Spinfree Keeping The Lights On University Of Arizona
...

Jake Fogelnest 33 yrs, jakefogelnest
New York NY
Sirius Satellite Radio Cbs Radio Vh1 Infinity Broadcasting Late Night With
Conan O'brien ...
Read more at http://www.peekyou.com/work/google#kbUZkpYOWj5Ch3l5.99

Google spies on the whole world through Google Earth. One NY
resident looked up her apartment building and saw that Google
Earth was allowing people to peer into her window. The EU has sued
and won over this privacy violation but it continues elsewhere.






by Tabulator
After a press release, Google partially restored the poet activist links but allowed access to only 360
of the 70,000 it noted.
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