Google gate?

Posted on January 17, 2010 by CO2 Realist

Is Google censoring search results?

In a recent post on the manipulation of Wikipedia, I noted the following:

As an aside, Bing.com currently shows 50,700,000 hits for “Climategate”, while Google.com shows 4,230,000 hits. Does Connolley have friends there as well?

Hmm…content for another post?

Lawrence Solomon of the National Post has written about it:

Better off with Bing

Why would Google want to tamp down interest in climategate? Money and power could have something to do with it. Search for Google and its founders and you’ll see that they have made big financial bets on global warming through investments in renewable and other green technologies; that they have a close relationship with Al Gore, that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is close to Barack Obama.

Apparently I wasn’t the only one that noticed something odd with Google’s search results for “climategate”.

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