Just When We Thought Google Wasn’t Evil…
Although we showed how Google Canada stepped up to the plate last week (but probably not on their own accord), Google.com is starting to worry us. It appears as though Google News publishes “news” from al-Manar, the official news organization of the terrorist group Hezbollah. Google seems to have a process in place to choose their news sources, which makes their choice of Hezbollah’s news disturbing.
A more detailed description of this occurence is given in the Counter Terrorism Blog. The CTB gives the following advice:
If you find the inclusion of al-Manar as a Google News source outrageous, I encourage you to send a polite but firm e-mail to source-suggestions@google.com encouraging them to remove al-Manar as a news source.
Does Google actually think Hezbollah is a reliable source for news? If you think that Hezbollah’s inclusion in Google News, write them at the above email address. The more email they get about this, the better… Apparently we have to keep Google in line.
May 8th, 2006 at 1:05 am
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Actually, Jew-Jew did start with that in mind, but kicking JewWatch from the tops spot is not necessarily the goal of Jewblog and Jewhad. We’re just ramping up those two services, so stay tuned for what is to come.