Google shopping is censoring results involving weapons

[notmetoo 41]

Google regularly p's me off with their PC bull hockey. Their "Do no evil" credo has no credence in my opinion. This is another step by the left to alienate legitimate gun owners and push us into a backwater niche.

 

Google Shopping Censors All Gun, Ammo & Accessories Results

[DevsAdvocate 112]

Yeah, this is horseshit.

[johnp 45]

[bhunted 887]

I keep reading the term Adwords... If that is the case, it won't affect the main index pages nor their shopping section, -I think!-

Adwords are the ads that you see on top of searches highlighted in boxes and/or on the side in which sellers pay for ranking and ticks.

If this refers to their GoogleBase products, then you're screwed.. But again, not their indexed pages.

[DirtyDigz 1,812]

 

 

Or, alternatively:

 

http://duckduckgo.com/

 

I found their mini-presentation on what google does with your search info interesting:

 

http://donttrack.us/

[johnp 45]

Or, alternatively:

 

http://duckduckgo.com/

 

I found their mini-presentation on what google does with your search info interesting:

 

http://donttrack.us/

OFF-TOPIC

A buddy was just tellin me about that stuff with google, this is what he told me. "So, you love your andorid phone? How about the tracking/key logging/remote user program they install in them, every text, every picture, every phone call you've ever made is stored in a data base. This isnt some paranoid rambling, this is real shit. Check your phone for carrier IQ or keytracer and take a look at the permission allowed, all of this is government sanctioned, I mean fugg It can even turn on your camera and watch everything you do remotely....land of the free right?"

[Heavyopp 167]

Google sure has been censoring results and I never knew it --- This past week I've been searching Redding .38 super dies and getting very little in results using google ---

I just tried that Duck go search -- WOW! real results -- No more google for me --- Thanks for the heads up

[Steve_G 51]

I was wondering what was going on there. I get search results than hit the shopping tab and, nothing. google toolbar is now uninstalled, bing is the default search engine and I will also be switching my email account. I may even ditch the droid phone once the contract is up but, I'm not sure what else is available. (NO IPHONE EITHER).

[Candide 0]

Bookmarked

[Red Solo Cup 11]

Google sucks. To avoid having your searches logged, use this as your search page (or one of the others mentioned may work just as well, this is just the proxy I currently use.)

 

https://www.startpage.com/

[notmetoo 41]

Added the DuckDuckGo toolbar to Safari. Now time to move my email addresses off Google. Thanks for passing that on!

[KpdPipes 388]

Hmm yet if you type something like 5.56 ammo for sale, you still get a buttload of hits

[Pizza Bob 1,488]

It's not the search engine, it's AdWords

[this_is_nascar 162]

Here's another link, similar take on it.

 

http://cheaperthandi...m/blog/?p=23469

[greatgunstatenj 32]

OFF-TOPIC

A buddy was just tellin me about that stuff with google, this is what he told me. "So, you love your andorid phone? How about the tracking/key logging/remote user program they install in them, every text, every picture, every phone call you've ever made is stored in a data base. This isnt some paranoid rambling, this is real shit. Check your phone for carrier IQ or keytracer and take a look at the permission allowed, all of this is government sanctioned, I mean fugg It can even turn on your camera and watch everything you do remotely....land of the free right?"

 

Not for nothing but just about every service logs your actions. iPhone, Blackberry, Droid, none of them are immune to this sort of thing. It's disturbing but pales in comparison to what the NSA is doing. They are intercepting a large portion of all electronic communications of both foreign and domestic origin. In the next few years their new datacenter will come online with enough storage to track and save just about every electronic interaction in the U.S. It is likely even encryption won't stand in their way as it's rumored they have already broken AES 128 and 256 is in their sights. Their new datacenter will house a supercomputer much faster than anything we can imagine today, specifically built for code breaking.

[Qel Hoth 33]

Not entirely accurate. CarrierIQ was installed by some phone manufacturers, not by Google. It was also present on Iphones as well as some android phones.

 

I know that my HTC Incredible 2 does not have CarrierIQ installed.

 

 

It has also since been shown that the person who discovered CarrerIQ misinterpreted the debugger and that the program does not log text messages, pictures, or phone calls. However, it is certain that your carrier logs what numbers you call and who you text, and depending on the carrier, the content of text and MMS messages may be logged for a period of time. The content of voice calls is never logged.

[Recon Racoon 49]

Not entirely accurate. CarrierIQ was installed by some phone manufacturers, not by Google. It was also present on Iphones as well as some android phones.

 

I know that my HTC Incredible 2 does not have CarrierIQ installed.

 

 

It has also since been shown that the person who discovered CarrerIQ misinterpreted the debugger and that the program does not log text messages, pictures, or phone calls. However, it is certain that your carrier logs what numbers you call and who you text, and depending on the carrier, the content of text and MMS messages may be logged for a period of time. The content of voice calls is never logged.

And the key tracer program is a major part of the phones operations. If they really wanted to spy on you, they wouldn't put the program right there on the application screen. It would be hidden through five different layers of BS.

[this_is_nascar 162]

If anyone is really surprised that certains aspects of their smartphone usage is logged, tracked and archived, well...........................................................................

[NJDrew1 0]

It's not the search engine, it's AdWords

 

Bob -- This is what I was telling you about when they delisted my adwords account, even though I was paying them $200+K annually, because they though we were selling Rugers and their adwords algorhthms picked up on the company name and stopped our advertisements.

[NicePants 58]

I heard a rumor that they might be doing some stuff on youtube as well, like removing adsense revenue from gun channels and marking all videos with firearms as 18 and up. Just a rumor as of right now, I haven't seen any credible reports about it yet.

[Dan 177]

Just switched my search engines to duckduck using SSL. I've been meaning to make the switch, but google is so dam addicting. This topic has pushed me over the edge.

[fumanchu182 23]

I tend to find Google Shopping missed the deals that were out there anyway. Only if you used google shopping feeds did you get your inventory listed. Hey anyway, fugg them. I usually hit up slickguns and http://gun-deals.com/ammo for my needs.

[KpdPipes 388]

It's not the search engine, it's AdWords

Oh.i never bother with adwords i've always just used the search engine

[Joeybones 1]

BASTARDS !

[notmetoo 41]

Not just AdWords. They block it from all their shopping results (web search results seem okay).

Here's the Google Shopping results for .223 ammo:

http://www.google.com/#q=.223+ammo&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&ei=Ms_6T_P3JKjF6wGc0JW5Bg&sqi=2&ved=0CEkQ_AUoBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=ecd0620c0a53f36f&biw=1320&bih=993