Climategate, Googlegate and censoring

There has been a lot of talk in recent months about the so called "Googlegate". We all knew Google was censoring the data is sent into China on behalf of their the Chinese government, but many people had no idea about what Google was doing to the search results here.

Some people believe Google is censoring the search results, some people think that is pure tinfoil hat stuff, after all Google has a motto of "Do no evil". I think they are censoring results. When I first looked earlier today, 1,750,000 records were returned. An hour later, 1,660,000 records returned.

I will let you decide for yourself. Compare and contrast the search results for "climategate" for Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

Who is censoring who?

UPDATE: This morning Google search returned 1,640,000 records.

The Canadian Election in Quotes

Google seems to have yet another new application on the Internet. It is called "InQuotes".

It's a neat little webapp that showcases many of the quotes our fearless leaders have made, it pulls them from stories linked to from Google News. Think of it as a comparison engine.

There are versions for:

• Canada
• United States
• United Kingdom
• India
  

The politicians currently profiled for Canada are:

• Stephen Harper
• Stephane Dion
• Jack Layton
• Gilles Duceppe
• Peter MacKay

Yep, no Elizabeth May, good for Google. :)

Of course despite the assertions that Stephen Harper is a Bush lover or whatever, looking at the quotes in "InQuotes" tells a much different story. We truly see that Dion is more interested in bad talking Stephen Harper and outgoing President Bush then talking about real policy that will have a massive impact on our future.


We're better off with Harper.