WHAT'S GOOGLE UP TO?

Ever notice how many liberal sites come up on Google when you do a news item search? Is it just co-incindence or something deeper. Check out this article for some insight. - Sailor

WHAT'S GOOGLE UP TO?
jacklewis.net
via FrontPage Magazine War Blog

The robots.txt file is supposed to be a tool for keeping search engines away from directories on your web site you don't want spidered or indexed. The major search engines all claim they obey them, but warn that there may be a delay between when a robots.txt file is changed and the spider reads, and follows it. All nice and good in print, but the reality is scary.

To cut down on bandwidth use I recently listed two directories containing seldom used message boards in my robots.txt as disallowed. Almost immediately Google began hitting those directories with the fervor of a teen-age hacker. The index page alone of one received 692 hits in one day from GoogleBots.

Now add that bit of info to the recent story from Reuters about hackers discovering a “wealth” of information regarding things most people don't want on the internet -- at Google.com. (I mentioned it here.) Could Google be using the robots.txt files to intentionally harvest data people want hidden?

Not scary enough for you? Well, add to that the problems Michelle Malkin, Charles Johnson and other bloggers have had getting their blogs listed on Google News. Apparently Google refused to add Conservative blogs, but has no problem adding Liberal blogs such as Wonkette or the Democrat Underground.

Then it should come as no surprise that as I reported earlier today about the political contributions of Google employees.

Let's add it up: Google a blatantly Liberal entity, is found to have tons of sensitive data archived on its site, and seems to be using the robots.txt files to sniff out where that sensitive information is hidden. Why would they want it, and what do they plan to do with it? The last election was pretty dirty and stuff was being dug up left and right. Could Google be building a “dirt chest” of secrets to unload during the next election? Tuesday, February 15, 2005

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