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I still get a dozen e-mails a week expressing outrage about the sophomoric Google bomb linking President Bush with the phrase “miserable failure.” In case you haven’t heard, you’ll all be happy to know that Google has now addressed the issue (via NYT):
Google announced on Thursday on its official blog that “by improving our [...]

Zeroing in the mortars in Basra:
Soldiers from the Royal Green Jackets based at the Basra Palace base said they had considered suing Google Earth if they were injured by mortar rounds that had been directed on the camp by the aerial footage.
“Even if they did blank out the areas where we are based it is [...]

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The NYTimes spotlights moonbats who have nothing better to do with their time.
Like Bryan said last week:
These are the people who are going to build a nuclear Google bomb and drop it on the GOP? For some reason, I feel less threatened by this than I guess I should. Their cyber nuke will [...]

Charles at LGF sends word that left-leaning Google has now registered a political action committee. The Guardian writes:
Google’s PAC will be run by a five-person board of directors who will be guided by the recommendations of an advisory committee made up of Google employees. It will raise its funds through voluntary donations from staff.
But judging [...]

…more trouble for conservative users, if Google News’s and Google execs’ campaign donations records are any indication. Here’s the official word on the buyout:
Google Inc. (GOOG) snapped up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion Monday in deal that catapults the Internet search leader to a leading role in the online video revolution. The all-stock acquisition unites [...]

No e-mail. No search engine. Seems like it’s been down all morning. Anyone know what’s going on?

Again.
Daveed recommends:
If you find the inclusion of al-Manar as a Google News source outrageous, I encourage you to send a polite but firm e-mail to source-suggestions-at-google.com encouraging them to remove al-Manar as a news source.
Pamela at Atlas Shrugs has all the background you need.
Filou, too.
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Google’s news sources
Google’s Democrats
Google News: Not so fair and balanced

Betsy Newmark is back and blogging up a storm.
She notes other blogs affected by Blogger’s incompetence (Viking Pundit, Fausta, and Stolen Thunder) and adds:
I got a message from Blogger saying that they had recovered my blog and that somehow I had gotten caught up in some massive “automated spam prevention system” action that had thought [...]

What happened to The People’s Cube?
Maybe Al Gore’s people at Google Current TV can find out for us and report back.
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LGF links to an update.

…doesn’t like me.
Wonder why? Maybe it was the China Google Protest Logo Album.

Lots of new entries for the China Google Protest Logo Album coming in. Here’s the best of the second batch.
Posted at Discarded Lies:

Sent by reader Herman F.:

From Junkyard Blog’s Bryan Preston:

Sent by reader Jorrit P.:

Posted at SheepDog blog:

From The Unalienable Right blog:

From reader THW (a clever anagram of Google’s company slogan, “Don’t Be Evil”):

From Slapstick [...]

I’m collecting photoshopped/altered Google logos by bloggers and others in response to the search engine company’s decision to kowtow to China. Let a thousand protest icons bloom!
Here was mine:

Murdoc:

Pam at Atlas Shrugs, who’s calling on you to divest from Google:

Point Five:

Dean Esmay:

Got more? Send ‘em in.
Meantime, Pajamas Media is tracking the story. And Thomas Lipscomb [...]

What will Google’s search engine logo look like tomorrow? Here’s my suggestion:

Via Breitbart/AP, Google capitulates to China’s censors:
Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country’s free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet’s fastest growing market. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company planned to [...]

While there’s a lull in the action on that important troop withdrawal vote, take some time to stop by these blogs. They all used the Just Google It graphics or made their own versions.
Lifelike Pundits
Eric’s Boredom Revealed
The Owner’s Manual
Halbert’s Cubicle
The Red Vee Dub
SoCalPundit
The Kellino Zone
UrbanGrounds
The Shape of Days
but that’s just my opinion
Justin [...]

The response to the Just Google It graphics has been amazing. Many blogs have taken the graphics and posted them on their sites. I actually don’t have a straightforward way of keeping track of just how many there are, but I’m sure the number is over 100 now. I’ve been looking for [...]

The Bush administration is finally and concertedly pushing back against the Deaniac Democrat lie that President Bush somehow lied us into war in Iraq. The president has delivered two speeches in the past few days that take direct aim at those Democrats who voted in favor of the war but now claim that the [...]

Check it out at PubliusPundit.

This just in:
Al Gore and Joel Hyatt Unveil Current …
- Set to Launch August 1, Independent Venture Will Be First National Television Network Created For, By and With an 18-34 Year-Old Audience; Google Zeitgeist Data Used to Produce News Feature, ‘Google Current’
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 /PRNewswire/ — Offering a glimpse of the independent network first [...]

Because it’s just so easy…
A bunch of readers point out that the Google search icon today pays tribute to Vincent Van Gogh, whose birth is apparently more noteworthy and deserving of celebration than the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Lots of readers are writing about a graphic used on Google’s search page yesterday. It showed the word “Google” half full of water, dripping into a bowl. Readers have interpreted the graphic to be an anti-Terri Schiavo commentary.
IT’S NOT.
I checked into it yesterday. If you clicked on the graphic, Google took you to a [...]

Charles Johnson reports that Google considers the neo-Nazi web site, National Vanguard, a legitimate news source. Google rejected Little Green Footballs twice. No news there! Michellemalkin.com was rejected too.
Update: Power Line notices too.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reveals how easy it is for hackers using nothing more than Google to uncover all kinds of supposedly private information:
Teams of hackers surfed the Web at Seattle University yesterday, harvesting Social Security and credit card numbers like a farmer cutting wheat. In less than an hour, they found millions of names, birth [...]

From USA Today:
Google employees gave $207,650 to federal candidates for last year’s elections, up from just $250 in 2000 when it was still a start-up. And 98% went to Democrats, the biggest share among top tech donors, a new USA TODAY campaign finance analysis shows.
(Hat tip: reader Raymond L. Konkle.)
Previously:
Google News: Not so Fair [...]

Actual headline featured in Google News’ top U.S. stories section:
Gonzales confirmed: war criminal to head US Justice Department
On a somewhat related note, I received the following e-mail from Google News recently that might be of interest to other bloggers wondering what the criteria are for inclusion as Google News sources:
Hi Michelle,
Thank you for your note. [...]

What’s up with Google News? The CBS report has been all the buzz in the MSM and in the blogosphere since it broke a little after 10am today. But as of 7pm EST, there is no link to any coverage of the report on the Google News home page. And there’s not a single link [...]