I noticed something really fishy several months back when the Abu Ghraib scandal broke. I did a search for "Lynndie England" in Google's image search and it returned NO RESULTS. I told some of my friends that it made no sense given the frequency of Google's indexing of web pages and other factors. Everyone said I was being paranoid.
So I'm catching up on news tonight and make a stop by the great site cursor.org and they have a link to a Google image search for "Abu Ghraib" vs. a Yahoo image search for "Abu Ghraib". Now I know something is deeply wrong.
Take a second to hit these links and ponder what this means:
Google Image Search for Abu Ghraib
Yahoo Image Search for Abu Ghraib
Google Image Search for Lynndie England
Yahoo Image Search for Lynndie England
Some people know about the cold war "Operation Mockingbird" craziness in which CIA assets were placed/recruited in media outlets around the country (it's worth a little research) in order to shape the news. I always figured such a program could never truly die because it would be so damn effective that temptation would win out and the program would live on in some form or another.
This,to me, is of utmost importance. We need to know whose fingers are playing with the most popular search engine in the world.