Almonit: Let me restate my argument yet once more in response to your posting. GOOGLE uses an algorithm to determine frequency of links to a site, nothing more, nothing less.
Stop looking for the "ghost in the machine." There is no sentient creature doing hand-editing of the GOOGLE algorithm. Therefore, you are completely off base to say that GOOGLE either does or does not endorse anything. It does NOT have to pull any site -- even hate sites. It simply reports the connections between sites, much as the telephone book lists name of subscribers. Every subscriber is listed if s/he has a telephone number. The telephone company does NOT decide which names to list and which not to list. [The converse is that PEOPLE can request they be unlisted. This is where the analogy breaks down. Anybody who puts up a site will find it listed by GOOGLE or any other search engine.] Finally, you can create any site you wish to attack the anti-Semitic one. HOWEVER, GIVEN THE GOOGLE ALGORITHM, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY INCREASE THE LINKS TO THE ANTI-SEMITIC SITE AMD THEREFORE ITS PROMINENCE/RATING. Forgive my bluntness, but perhaps you ought to get some sleep and reread my previous positing including the link to the article that GOOGLE absolutely refuses to pull any site based on its content, no matter how objectionable. To do otherwise, would be to undercut the validity of their search engine and would lead all users to begin to wonder what had and what had not been suppressed. Don _________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng. 1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885 Ph. 517.337.1545 FAX 517.337.2539 http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
