How Alex Jones Hijacked Google
Drudge ran an article that linked to Alex Jones' InfoWars site. Here is his headline:
GOOGLE Hides 'Clinton Body Count'...
It goes here, where we read:
Google has altered its search algorithm to prevent searches for "Clinton body count" from auto-completing, despite the term auto-completing when typed in on virtually any other search engine.The 'Clinton body count' is an infamous list of alleged murders connected to the Clintons.
When a web user searches for "clinton body" on Bing or Yahoo Search, the suggested results all relate to the Clinton body count controversy.
However, search for the same term on Google and "clinton body" only returns suggestions related to auto-repair shops, and nothing to do with the Clinton body count.
Go ahead, try it for yourself.
So, I took this advice. I searched for "Clinton body count." Guess what the top link is? The story on Inforwars about Google's rigging of the algorithm. See for yourself. Click here.
This is great! Google tries a fast one, and InfoWars exposes it. Then the stupid algorithm lists InfoWars' story as the top story on "Clinton body count." Jones hijacked Google. He will bring traffic to his site.
I tried this: Clinton body count -- no quotation marks. I got this. It's even better.
This leads me to a conclusion: we can beat the system.
Consider the following.
First, the algorithms really are stupid. They can and are precise, but the person who wants to get around the algorithm can do so. The people who programmed the algorithm must re-write it. This takes time and money.
Then the person who wants to beat the algorithm does another end run around it. This can go on indefinitely.
Second, there are limits on secrecy. Someone has to write the code. Someone has to tell him what to do. Secrets are hard to hide. Word gets out.
Third, how many phrases can Google suppress? Each one requires coding.
Fourth, there are other search engines. After word gets out, then targets get angry. The very act of suppression convinces them that Google is up to no good.
Consider a suspected conspiracy theory. What's the best way to spread it? Create another conspiracy to hide it. "Move along. There's nothing to see here." There is on Bing. There is on Yahoo.com. The very existence of the algorithm persuades the searcher that there is something to the story.
The phrase "Clinton body count" is going to be with the world for a long time. If she is elected, searchers will use Bing or DuckDuckGo or Yahoo to search. A serious student of conspiracies is not deterred by an algorithm.
I searched for "Clinton dead bodies." I got these hits. I tried this: Clinton dead bodies. I got this. It's just as juicy.
If it's true that Google used the algorithm to modify the search, it's futile. There are too many search terms to use. Until Google has an algorithm to police the searches and in some way automatically block the ones that are popular, it is fighting a losing battle.
If Hillary Clinton is elected, she will come into office under a digital cloud of suspicion. She will be the most despised President-elect since Abraham Lincoln in early 1861. Algorithms will not help her.