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Google Now Blocking Anti-Chicom Site Worldwide
2006-03-13
At some point, quite recently, our popular site "The People's Cube" (ThePeoplesCube.com) was purged from Google search results.

MSN, Yahoo and other search engines still have it - but Google has erased/blocked any link to the site in its database. One can still find links to us from other sites - but not even one from Google to ThePeoplesCube.com.

We tried American, French, German, British, Australian, and Russian versions of Google - they used to give us traffic only a few days ago - but all we got was the same line in various languages: Sorry, no information is available for the URL thepeoplescube.com. And if we clicked on Find web pages from the site thepeoplescube.com we got Your search - site:thepeoplescube.com - did not match any documents...
Posted by:Anonymoose

#15  Various Chinese Military/Affairs Forums and websites have either been completely blocked, or are at best partially downloaded wid protracted long Long LONG L-O-N-G-G-G lead times. You can nap for 2-4 hours and nothing will change.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-03-13 23:27  

#14  Accoona - that would be the search engine backed by Bill Clinton and the Chinese government. Not much of an alternative to Google.
Posted by: DMFD   2006-03-13 22:07  

#13  And if you Google Charles Johnson's "littlegreenfootballs," anti-site material is at the top of the list. Anti-LGF sites wouldn't get 10 hits a day, unless the Google jerks were propping them. But Google wants the 300 million Arab market more than objective commentary. Yahoo shouldn't have taken $200 million from Google to settle patent claims. Yahoo should have sandbagged those predators in their infant stage.
Posted by: Listen To Dogs   2006-03-13 14:57  

#12  #9 Yes, Besoeker, I realize you think (or whatever passes as thinking in your pathetic excuse for a notochord) we're just as bad ....Posted by: Phil 2006-03-13 11:37

Ohh my, oh my, oh my... now ve must settle down bevor ve hav da big one Dr. Phil my boy. U should not take zese dings zo zirriously. Go vind a towel and take zings in hans, like as alvays!
Posted by: Dr. Ruth   2006-03-13 14:42  

#11  This is dispicable. The communist Mandarins epitomize what all Internet related companies should be violently opposed to. What utter hypocrisy.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-13 14:37  

#10  It started with blocking MASER sites and now it expands.
Posted by: Glung Hupash4176   2006-03-13 12:06  

#9  Yes, Besoeker, I realize you think (or whatever passes as thinking in your pathetic excuse for a notochord) we're just as bad as google until we offer to pay server storage space and bandwidth charges for you to be able to spew far-right complaints on the internet all day long.

In reality I think you're just another right-wing equivalent of all the left-wing "rage against my allowance" slackers on slashdot who haven't moved out of their parent's basements but think they're revolutionaries against the Chainey Regime.

Freedom of speech isn't free, but you can have it for 15.00 a month from typepad. If I can afford it, you can afford it. And I've never gotten sent to roadside america from there.
Posted by: Phil   2006-03-13 11:37  

#8  Microsoft displays the URL in it's "Live" search results (www.live.com). It's the first hit, as it should be.
Posted by: Dar   2006-03-13 11:28  

#7  accoona

I've started using this. It's good. Google is self-destructing.

Posted by: 2b   2006-03-13 11:23  

#6  Strange indeed.... I tried it myself and got:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/

Appears to be a pattern developing.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-03-13 11:18  

#5  Free speech for me -- but not for thee!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-03-13 11:10  

#4  Another reason I don't use google.
Fucking communists bastards.
Posted by: mmurray821   2006-03-13 10:44  

#3  This is one reason I mourn the loss of the humble library card catalogue system. Sure it's easier to search for a book on line, but it's also easier to *disappear* a book when all you need to do is delete it from the database. With the old catalogues you needed to pull three cards out of every cabinet from every library.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-03-13 09:46  

#2  Google's still sticking with its "Do No Evil" motto. Unfortunately, they've decided that criticizing China is evil.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-03-13 09:33  

#1  Yep, they are censored.

You can spam the moronic Google Blog at gblog@google.com.

Not like I'm encouraging you or anything. nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-03-13 08:52  

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