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Thursday, May 25, 2006
News is not Assertion and Opinion. Score one for Google.
The banned site's perspective with links to stories that Google cited as examples of "hate speech." I read them over for myself. One is totally obvious with references to "Muslim savages." The others may not be as obvious, but substitute a group that you belong to or our sensitive about for "Islam" or "Muslim" in the stories, whether that word is a gender, race, ethnic or just some social group designation, and it is pretty clear. The stories read like talk radio often sounds -- half-truths and assertions that aren't factual. Opinion and emotion words abound.
So Google decided not to index the sites as "news." And here is what they are doing-- calling for an anti-Google boycott.
The Anti-Google Search Engine Index – The New Media Journal.us
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