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GOOGLE RON PAUL ...something to think about

Submitted by dfwrider on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 09:35

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Today I searched for videos and news, not related to anything political. Just doing the Saturday morning research for some hobbies and pursuits of mine.

"Hey Ron Paul said so and so."

"Look, I haven't seen that Dr. Paul video yet."

I smiled, seeing all these Ron Paul items pop-up or shown on the side as related, or in the google aggregate news.

Then I frowned.

I'm not even searching for Ron Paul, and I'm getting positive little items slipped in here, and there.

"Well what's the problem DFW?"

The problem is, I'm seeing something that I know other people are not seeing. I'm seeing a filtered view of the web that's different from other people's filtered view of the web.

And that's when I remembered this article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10409885-2.html

And as you can see from the article above, google planned on personalizing the results for everyone, regardless if you were logged into their services or not.

This is well over two years later, and I can see the personalization effect in full bloom on all the social sites, in web searches, in youtube searches, etc.

Everybody is fired up about privacy, and they should be.

But I thought I'd point out that there's another huge problem. People are going online, and starting to get that same narrowly defined world view again. If someone is a Santorum lover, and they have favorited/liked santorum youtube videos, vimeo videos, yahoo videos, and have a bunch of positive articles linked on their facebook or twitter, and have their gmail filled with positive Santorum chain emails in their inbox.

What do you think is going to happen when they google "ron paul"?

Nothing good.

The neocon/neolib/bankster machine was several steps behind, when the liberty movement took to the net, and stunned the world. But things are changing, and they are wising up to the internet, and learning how to control it and it's audience.

And while we still hold the upper hand, in this regard, and the internet still shows some holdovers of the wild west days of the WWW, things are changing.

We'll have to adapt. Because telling someone to google Ron Paul, might result in a neocon pulling up a bunch of negative videos and articles.

All this means is, that now that we have a significant base, we'll have to interact with people, and spoon feed them links and information. Among other things.

Some alternatives, FWIW

Submitted by outreach on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 16:29. Permalink

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

http://duckduckgo.com/

I said something about this on my facebook page

Submitted by Dan0 on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 15:15. Permalink

and a friend of mine told me to google the other candidates...so I googled Rick Santorum about 5 times and hit on the frothy link..(to give it some traffic) then I googled Newt, Romney and then Paul once again and I got different links than I did the 1st time I googled Ron Paul..this is one of the links I got the 2nd time I googled RP

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/42858

a hit piece put out by some guy named Rueters..I am going to copy it here so you all don't give it traffic but is this stuff NON Paul people are seeing? There is only 3 comments if anyone wants to defend him

Republican White House candidate and champion for smaller government Ron Paul appears to have been reimbursed twice for travel between his congressional district and Washington with both taxpayer and campaign funds, the Roll Call newspaper said on Monday.

The libertarian congressman from Texas has staked his presidential campaign on a vow to slash government spending, but allegations that he may have received thousands of dollars in excess payments could taint his image and hurt his campaign for the Republican Party’s nomination to face President Barack Obama in November.

Paul’s office was not immediately available to comment.

The congressman has yet to win a nominating contest and is considered to have little chance to capture the Republican nomination.

Paul appeared to be reimbursed twice for eight flights between 1999 and 2004, according to copies of credit card statements obtained by Roll Call, campaign records filed with the Federal Election Commission and a quarterly expenditure disclosure. A Roll Call journalist who reported the story said Paul was paid an extra $4,422 from reimbursements for the eight flights which totaled $8,845.

Candidates must submit records of how they spend campaign donations to the elections commission and itemize any expenses above $500. Members of Congress have to file receipts for their expenses to the House of Representatives.

The documents showed that pro-Paul organizations like the Liberty Political Action Committee, the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education and the Liberty Committee sent checks to American Express paying for flights while Paul received payment from his congressional office for the same expenses, Roll Call said.

The commission could not comment on whether there were any investigations into Paul but said it had not received any complaints in reaction to the Roll Call story concerning Paul’s use of campaign funds, an FEC official said.

In one instance in 2003, Paul bought a round-trip Continental Airlines flight between Washington and Houston worth $651.50 and appears to have been reimbursed by the Committee to Re-Elect Ron Paul and also his congressional office, Roll Call said.

LOL@GOOGLE

Submitted by Knucklehead on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 13:01. Permalink

I don't use Google all my searches are done by proxy using Startpage. I stopped using Google years ago they are probably the largest data miner on the web.