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So, apparently it's happening to other conservative writers and websites too, this sudden blacklisting by @google. Is it a conscious choice by Google, or a hack? Whatever the truth, it's a reminder that Google has far too much control over information access.
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) July 21, 2020
Google has memoryholed my blog as well. Try Googling:
Steve Sailer
In contrast, Bing still recognizes the existence of my blog.
Similarly, Google has disappeared
It’s almost as if there’s an election coming up and Google is going for maximum election interference.
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Maybe just a glitch. Searching for the left wing lawyers guns and money blog was also failing. But things appear to be back to normal.
BroadcastingBlacklisting System. This is just a test.....The Libertarian International asked members in every country to check and reported that it was in most but not all the US only...but NOT in Congressional offices (I'm always amazed at the Libertarian's info from having people on ground all over the place). I relate this to the strange stuff with Twitter the other day.
Just checked your name and "Google has memoryholed my blog..." UNZ comes out on top.
But Google is Jewish Power, and connies dare not displease Jewish Power. All these yrs, Trump did nothing. And National Review is all about ‘muh capitalist oligarch’.
Connism before Jewish Power is like Danny Devito in CUCKOO’S NEST.
Google done it but who controls Google? Palestinians? Oh, Alex Jones and Carlson will warn us that it is ‘Chinese-styl’ censorship’. Never mind it is Jewish-Substance Censchwarzship. Nothing is possible until the Power is named and shamed.
“Ernest”? Yikes. Maybe they should memory hole you Steve. But I just checked and you’re still there. For the moment anyway..
Now about that middle name I just discovered by googling you…
Could be worse. Like "Endeavour". That'd be worse.
Or my great-grandfather's first name. Ezekiel. He went by "E. Mason Roberts" all his life.Replies: @Rob McX
https://www.unz.com/isteve/ernie-sailer-1917-2012/
Well, we can be sure that the Googlemeister did not memory-hole Steve upon the basis of his coronadoom.
I meant to hit disagree. ZHedge has orgasmically shilled for CoronaHoax the past five months and was attacked anyway by g00gle because commenters overwhelmingly called BS on the hoax. Oh yeah baby, g00gle reads our comments, QED.Replies: @Liberty Mike
I miss Hail, who always had some interesting data to share on how this wasn’t the plague.Replies: @Simon Tugmutton, @Jim Don Bob, @MEH 0910
Nothing of the sort is happening when I google Steve Sailer. First occurrence: your twitter. Second: your Wikipedia page. Third occurrence: your blog.
2. twitter.com
3. en.wikiquote.org
4. unz.com
5. rationalwiki.org
6. muckrack.com
7. openboarders.info☮
Ah yes, the Mrs. Pritchet of the Internet is active again, dreaming her dream.
Philip K. Dick would have loved this epoch.
From “Eye in the Sky”.
I think they fixed it now. I suppose it was a trial balloon and they got backlash and backed off. They will probably keep trying until they feel confident enough to withstand any backlash. How will you know if the time is right if you don’t keep trying? In the meantime, it serves to keep conservatives off balance and maybe lead them to self-censor so it’s all good.
I read it’s working again. Who knows.
You sure? I just googled Steve Sailer. The first hit was wikipedia, then twitter, then wikiquote and then unz. Maybe just a glitch in the matrix. Or maybe DJT fixed it.
To be serious, this censorship is bad and getting worse. How about a decade long anti trust investigation by the FTC, DOJ, and others? BJC did it to Microsoft in the 90s.
“Google has memoryholed my blog as well. Try Googling: Steve Sailer”
We did. It comes up on the first page.
“Similarly, Google has disappeared…”
No. Tucker’s sites also comes up on the first page.
Trying to one up your boy Trump with the gaslighting quotient? You know, he was widely panned for his interview with Fox News and Chris Wallace on Sunday. Acing a cognitive test, downplaying Covid-19**, being coy about whether he would accept the election results if he lost.
**Speaking of memory holing
https://www.unz.com/isteve/arguably-wrong-ballparks-3-different-strageties
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coronavirus-open-thread/
This memory holing glitch in the matrix is validating my idea to start recording what Google searches record at different times. The changes are interesting.Replies: @Alexander Turok, @AKAHorace, @Hypnotoad666
Oh, right. "Widely."
The royal "We"? Or "We" as in Team Corvinus; a collection of New Left ladies who have given up coitus for social activism?Replies: @Corvinus
In other news, Trump's unfitness for office and every other flaw he has have been beaten to death by every major media outlet, so there's nothing more to add here. Noticing anything else is rare and that's what makes Sailer so useful.
Stuff disappearing from Google search results could be caused by anything, from a glitch in the code to someone messing with the code in real time as a prank to a polemical group of Google employees deliberately testing the waters. There's no transparency when it comes to coding so we can never know. However, the fact that noone aligned with the political left has ever complained about being suppressed online should tell you something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsaO3v4SvwAReplies: @Sam Malone, @anon, @anon
Seems not to be memoryholed on my side of the pond.
I just looked at Google Trends for your name.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=steve%20sailer&geo=US
One odd thing is it is showing a spike to 2x the usual volume and a breakout related query: [email protected]
Strange stuff. I wonder if it has something to do with the memory holing mechanism.
In contrast, Ron just seems to have been disappeared. Current interest to 0 and no related queries, plus the only related topic is Wikipedia.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=ron%20unz&geo=US
P.S. I am amazed they memory holed Tucker. That seems too over the top to ignore.
We did. It comes up on the first page.
"Similarly, Google has disappeared..."
No. Tucker's sites also comes up on the first page.
Trying to one up your boy Trump with the gaslighting quotient? You know, he was widely panned for his interview with Fox News and Chris Wallace on Sunday. Acing a cognitive test, downplaying Covid-19**, being coy about whether he would accept the election results if he lost.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1285520211593105413
**Speaking of memory holing
https://www.unz.com/isteve/arguably-wrong-ballparks-3-different-strageties
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coronavirus-open-thread/Replies: @res, @Ben Kurtz, @Michael S, @Matthew Kelly, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Every court has its jester, @MEH 0910, @anon, @VinnyVette
We? The only thing sadder than your comments would be if it took more than one person to write them.
This memory holing glitch in the matrix is validating my idea to start recording what Google searches record at different times. The changes are interesting.
I can find all of those on my computer. However, about an hour ago many conservative and HBD sites that I can now find were missing. I would guess that someone at Google decided to do some censorship, but they are now reversing it. Google will surely blame on it on an innocuous glitch, but it may be a harbinger of things to come.
You will love Big Brother, Steve.
We did. It comes up on the first page.
"Similarly, Google has disappeared..."
No. Tucker's sites also comes up on the first page.
Trying to one up your boy Trump with the gaslighting quotient? You know, he was widely panned for his interview with Fox News and Chris Wallace on Sunday. Acing a cognitive test, downplaying Covid-19**, being coy about whether he would accept the election results if he lost.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1285520211593105413
**Speaking of memory holing
https://www.unz.com/isteve/arguably-wrong-ballparks-3-different-strageties
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coronavirus-open-thread/Replies: @res, @Ben Kurtz, @Michael S, @Matthew Kelly, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Every court has its jester, @MEH 0910, @anon, @VinnyVette
The glitch seems to be resolved — the blogs in question once again appear as the top results of the relevant Google searches — but I noticed the drop-off when it happened earlier today, and observed at the time that other search engines did not suffer the same glitch at the same time.
Make of it what you will, but I would be curious to know which blogs temporarily disappeared during this glitch and which did not. If there was some overt political pattern to it, I think that would suggest that somebody was test-driving some kind of censorship tool for use later. Rod Dreher’s blog contains a list of a number of right wing blogs whose results all went dark at the same time, but I don’t know if there is selection bias there. I also didn’t perform enough tests at the time, personally, to come to any firm conclusions as to whether such a pattern was in evidence.
If anyone here tried Google searching neutral or left-wing blogs and had interesting or unexpected results earlier today, it would be good to hear about them. (For that matter, if anyone can add to Steve and Rod’s list of affected right-wing blogs, that would also be helpful.)
I can verify that the memory holing occurred, but it has been “fixed” for the moment. Like a commenter above, I think this is just a trial run. If they get pushback, they undo it. Eventually, they won’t undo it.
Destroy Google Now!
I wrote this in August of 2017 about GOOGLE:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/when-will-vicious-nobodies-like-james-damore-stop-oppressing-billionaire-nepocrats/#comment-1963164
Tweets from 2015, still fresh:
WE NEED A TEDDY ROOSEVELT TO GO AFTER THESE BASTARDS.
Search results and algorithms must be monitored and regulated like my corn flakes and steak are by the FDA. Actually, more so. They should be required to show their ingredients (source code) to the consumer so we can determine the bias. We demand full transparency.
Back in 2016, pro-Trump hashtags trended regularly on Twitter. In the last two years, no pro-Trump hashtags trend. It at most takes a thousand people to make a hashtag trend on Twitter. You don’t think the President of the United States has a thousand dedicated supporters?
Social media is The Matrix.
We did. It comes up on the first page.
"Similarly, Google has disappeared..."
No. Tucker's sites also comes up on the first page.
Trying to one up your boy Trump with the gaslighting quotient? You know, he was widely panned for his interview with Fox News and Chris Wallace on Sunday. Acing a cognitive test, downplaying Covid-19**, being coy about whether he would accept the election results if he lost.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1285520211593105413
**Speaking of memory holing
https://www.unz.com/isteve/arguably-wrong-ballparks-3-different-strageties
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coronavirus-open-thread/Replies: @res, @Ben Kurtz, @Michael S, @Matthew Kelly, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Every court has its jester, @MEH 0910, @anon, @VinnyVette
Interesting use of the passive voice. Panned by whom exactly?
Oh, right. “Widely.”
We did. It comes up on the first page.
"Similarly, Google has disappeared..."
No. Tucker's sites also comes up on the first page.
Trying to one up your boy Trump with the gaslighting quotient? You know, he was widely panned for his interview with Fox News and Chris Wallace on Sunday. Acing a cognitive test, downplaying Covid-19**, being coy about whether he would accept the election results if he lost.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1285520211593105413
**Speaking of memory holing
https://www.unz.com/isteve/arguably-wrong-ballparks-3-different-strageties
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coronavirus-open-thread/Replies: @res, @Ben Kurtz, @Michael S, @Matthew Kelly, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Every court has its jester, @MEH 0910, @anon, @VinnyVette
Until Google open-sources their production-deployed algorithm and provides complete transparency to the general public as to how it ranks, blacklists, etc., various sites and searches, I err on the side of assuming the worst from a company whose employees’ political contributions go something like 99% DNC, 0% GOP; whose execs literally cried over Trump’s election, and promised not to let it happen again; and which has operated, for the past decade or two (at least), on the unstated principle that “it’s easier to ask forgiveness than permission” with regards to privacy, political influence, antitrust legislation, and the like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRf9UxsM-NEReplies: @njguy73, @Grumpy, @Kyle
I Googled, you shameless beggar, and it’s obvious Google did not ‘memory-hole’ anything. First hit was WIKI and the second was unz, which is perfectly consistent with what one expects Google algorithms to produce.
You have a remarkable sense of persecution for someone who tries to come off as neutral and level-headed and “the voice of reasonableness and truth.”
And:
MORE THAN THREE HOURS LATER, THE MEMORY-HOLING HAS NOT BEEN UNDONE.
bing has been better for a long time now. like 5 years. not only for web search but for image search too. google VERY clearly politically compromised at this point. a process that began a while ago and got worse year by year. google’s main utility today is stuff like reverse image search, google maps, text translation, and other peripheral non-web search functions.
This memory holing glitch in the matrix is validating my idea to start recording what Google searches record at different times. The changes are interesting.Replies: @Alexander Turok, @AKAHorace, @Hypnotoad666
Use of the royal we is a good indication of unwarranted self-importance.
I just Googled “Steve Sailer” and there you were, in Wikipedia and also chez vous at unz.com.
I suspect you shot a blank.
Stop using Google, and stop using Chrome. I switched to FireFox with DuckDuckGo as my default search engine months ago and never looked back. I didn’t want Google to track my every move. Big brother is always watching.
When I was on Chrome, whenever I came to this website, I would get a “Danger!” sign warning me that unz.com is not a “Secure” site, I guess what they meant was it’s not a “safe space” for the snowflakes. Since I switched to FireFox, I never see that again.
Fuck Google. It’s just another media company, run by the same tribe as the one controlling old media. Always got to control the narrative. Whoever controls the narrative controls the country, and the world.
“Tucker Carlson” search on DuckDuckGo: first two results are his personal homepage and his fox page.
“Rachel Maddow” on Google: First two results are her personal page and MSNBC page.
“Tucker Carlson” on Google:
Result 1 is biased wiki page
2 is a “Vultue.com” accusation of “sexual misconduct”
3 is CNN saying his “writer quits after secretly posting racist…”
His Fox page doesn’t come until 7, and his personal homepage isn’t in the first 30 results at all.
Bigger question for some of you: why haven’t you switched yet to Brave Browser and DuckDuckGo?
https://i.imgur.com/s2SmLzZ.jpg
We did. It comes up on the first page.
"Similarly, Google has disappeared..."
No. Tucker's sites also comes up on the first page.
Trying to one up your boy Trump with the gaslighting quotient? You know, he was widely panned for his interview with Fox News and Chris Wallace on Sunday. Acing a cognitive test, downplaying Covid-19**, being coy about whether he would accept the election results if he lost.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1285520211593105413
**Speaking of memory holing
https://www.unz.com/isteve/arguably-wrong-ballparks-3-different-strageties
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coronavirus-open-thread/Replies: @res, @Ben Kurtz, @Michael S, @Matthew Kelly, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Every court has its jester, @MEH 0910, @anon, @VinnyVette
“We did.”
The royal “We”? Or “We” as in Team Corvinus; a collection of New Left ladies who have given up coitus for social activism?
"We" as in people who NOTICE. Mr. Sailer is feigning outrage and being hypocritical in his own right about "memory holing", but I would not expect you to admit it. That is the major point here.Now, as far as free speech is concerned, recall the Supreme Court has ruled in several cases that if a private company/organization creates a public forum for speech, the fact that it is a private company/organization allows its immunity from the First and Fourteenth Amendments (Hudgens v. NLRB, Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, and Central Hardware Co. v. NLRB). Perhaps the Big Bear's lawsuit can make it to the Supreme Court and serve as the impetus for change, considering how today's "cancel culture" is akin to the censorship of the 1950's. And maybe what is needed is a corporate personhood amendment that can reign in social media companies. Then again, the EU may actually set the standards for other nations to follow.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/why-facebook-wants-the-eu-to-decide-the-limits-of-free-speech-1.4270126Finally, per usual, "cancel culture" and "political correctness" needs context. Try to follow along.Dennis Miller and Bill Maher --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipwMa5uT5eshttps://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/cancel-culture-harpers-letter-free-speechhttps://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/a33296561/cancel-culture-a-force-for-good-or-a-threat-to-free-speechTHE BATTLE AGAINST ‘HATE SPEECH’ ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES GIVES RISE TO A GENERATION THAT HATES SPEECH--NINA BURLEIGH, NEWSWEEK, 5/26/16Replies: @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Rob
I noticed something similar about an hour ago trying to find Steve’s blog. Google isteve or isteve unz and nothing comes up. same for unz review. It worked at unz.com. This time it was easier to find it.
Yes, they are indeed coming for us.
If I were Ron of Steve I'd have Plan B ready for when the hammer really does come down.
Arthur Bloom of The American Conservative has previously written that Google can manually manipulate this to memory hole certain people or websites. It probably was a trial balloon, but it is odd they would include Rod Dreher. He is not a Trump supporter and is mostly promoting his upcoming book. Unless the book, which is comparing that tactics of our progressives to the Soviets and warning Christians to get ready for further persecution from the state is the reason they included him.
1.4 x 10^6 results on google.com . I’m in Canada so maybe it’s different
Duck Duck Go is a decent alternative that is less intrusive to your privacy.
Lately I’ve been using Qwant, based in France. It’s pretty good.
I think Yandex in Russia also offers a search engine.
If you search for Steve Sailer on Yandex, this site comes up as the #2 link after his Twitter. On google, unz is at the moment #5.
I have been using the Yandex Android browser on my tablet because (unlike Chrome for Android) it will run Chrome desktop extensions. (Don't ask me why Google won't allow extensions to run under Chrome for Android since it is technically feasible). Specifically I wanted to run the "Bypass Paywalls" extension which allows you to view most soft paywalled newspaper sites without a subscription (WSJ, Washington Post, etc.) .Replies: @J.Ross, @Johann Ricke, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Clyde
Dear iSteve, kindly inform Google that my response to their misbehaviour is to post a cheque to you.
(I take it that you can cash a cheque in pounds sterling without paying too much in charges?)
One other thing, it looks like Trump is getting ready to drop the bomb. Part of the whole Q signaling about the storm is that there would be radio silence and a shut down of communications by the black hats once the SHTF.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/breaking-us-attorney-john-durham-negotiations-people-guilty-pleas-russia-collusion-scandal/
Trump is going for the throat with the Durham investigation and if he can get the lower level schlubs to plead guilty and turn on their former superiors, that will simultaneously cut the legs out from under the left while checkmating the next level of operatives. Expect more of this.
>plan trusting in 2020
Of course if the TrumpStaffel were to be formed tomorrow I'd enlist immediately. I want to believe.
(with apologies to Ricardo Montalban)
The Five Stages of a Bloggers’ Life
1. Who is Steve Sailer? He has a blog?
2. I read Steve Sailer’s ideas presented by a more famous journalist
3. I read Steve Sailer
4. I read Steve Sailer for his presentation of a less-famous bloggers’ ideas
5. Who is Steve Sailer? He has a blog?
Your blog entries now show up in the fourth spot. I note that Google manages to get the words “white supremacy” associated with your name twice on the page, even though they specifically refer to Vdare.
https://unherd.com/thepost/an-untrue-claim-in-the-new-yorker-speaks-volumes/
It reminds me of one of my favorite Jon Stewart lines. He did an interview about why he satirizes the media, and he said of certain pundits "How do these people survive after writing books like Dow 36,000? Would a weatherman keep his job if he said that tomorrow it's going to be 400 degrees and it'll snow mice?"
How could someone be so utterly detached from the real world?
Like that other eminent product of Harvard, historian and plagiarist, Doris Kearns Goodwin. Am I suggesting Lepore is also a plagiarist? No. But I am suggesting both use others' material without the rigorous intellectual honesty one should be able to expect from eminent, Harvard-educated historians.
The proper question is so, how many inflicted injuries were the result of 100.00% lawful, legal actions that any non-political jury would instantly acquit?
If there is a remainer, where the law was technically broken, how many are more deserving of the Darwin award than our sympathy?
Police inflicted injuries will go down when people stop commiting crimes and resisting arrest.
OT (startpage isn’t bad either btw)
“Teen stabbed at knife awareness course”
That’s one way of putting it.
Steve, you memoryholed a big part of your own blog. Remember coronavirus? I do.
Now about that middle name I just discovered by googling you...Replies: @Kylie, @the one they call Desanex, @MEH 0910, @Mr Mox
“‘Ernest’? Yikes.”
Could be worse. Like “Endeavour”. That’d be worse.
Or my great-grandfather’s first name. Ezekiel. He went by “E. Mason Roberts” all his life.
I agree. I start with duckduckgo, but if it fails me, I go to bing, and if it does I go to google (once in a few weeks or so). Bing indeed seems the best for image searches.
BTW, a search for “peak stupidity” comes up with the right site every time, but it helps that I bang the livin’ out of google on this (using google, just due to it being the most popular search engine for OTHERS.)
You guys give it a shot. You’ll see what I mean.
I just googled you by name and got plenty of stuff, with your blog posts and twitter posts, right under your wiki entry == I even misspelled your name as usual and it thoughtfully corrected me
Imagine dressing like this. Imagine being a Billionaire and dressing like this. We are ruled by the decadent and the weak.
Silicon Valley is bizarre. You need millions to live on a drab street in San Jose in a house that a plumber once owned, and the plumber dressed better than the millionaire who bought his house.
Jill Lepore is a useless hack. All the regulars at The New Yorker are useless hacks, genuinely terrible people. The magazine would still publish good reporting now and again (from others), but I cancelled a couple of years ago after the fiftieth anti-Trump cover.
On google the first result for “steve sailer” is wikipedia.
#2 is your twitter.
#3 is another twitter link.
#4 is wikiquote.
#5 is unz.com/isteve.
Currently Gulag searches for either “isteve immigration” or “steve sailer immigration” still do not yield results pointing to unz.com/iSteve. So if you search for Steve by name you get unz/iSteve, but if you add the keyword immigration that diverts away from unz.
Yes, they are indeed coming for us.Replies: @Known Fact, @Chrisnonymous
Unz Review comes up fine for me. I do worry that one day it won’t, at all, but even doing Google or YouTube searches for totally non-political shows, albums or people can yield oddly inconsistent or incomplete results
If I were Ron of Steve I’d have Plan B ready for when the hammer really does come down.
Is this ploy by Steve to increase searches for his name?
I googled ‘Steve Sailer’ and your sites were the 3 top hits.
Autocompletes and the 4th portrait is Steve. See why they need to start thinking about some cancelling now?
Now about that middle name I just discovered by googling you...Replies: @Kylie, @the one they call Desanex, @MEH 0910, @Mr Mox
Steve Ernest Sailer = Never sees real tits
If it is any consolation, DuckDuckGo still displays you … in fact, it puts these very pages at the top, though it links at the bottom to a very unflattering Wiki entry.
If you google “vdare,” the first two hits are SPLC “extremist file” pages. First for the site itself, the next for Peter Brimelow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRf9UxsM-NEReplies: @njguy73, @Grumpy, @Kyle
That’s not decadence, that’s strategy. It’s the billionaire telegraphing “I’m just a regular guy” so the stupid masses will trust him while he buys up their dumb asses.
Very good advice, but Guy, who spends a lot of time around SV VCs and is somewhat of one himself now, has since learned to water this down. Evidently if you wear a tie in San Mateo County you're a snob or something.
I had to use Bing yesterday to locate this site.
How hard is it to type in unz.com? I ask you this, Art, because I do see loads of people do this to get to websites they go to all the time. I know these simple URLs, unz, vdare, peakstupidity, zerohedge, instapundit, etc, by heart, like I know the phone numbers of people, family or friends, who've had the same mobile or land lines for a long time.Replies: @ScarletNumber
Has http://www.tuckercarlson.com been updated since 2018?
The Five Stages of a Bloggers' Life
1. Who is Steve Sailer? He has a blog?
2. I read Steve Sailer's ideas presented by a more famous journalist
3. I read Steve Sailer
4. I read Steve Sailer for his presentation of a less-famous bloggers' ideas
5. Who is Steve Sailer? He has a blog?Replies: @Dieter Kief
6. Who’s this Ray P. man – somebody told me the other day, that he ain’t real, and that you could look right through him.
Hu?
Hehe!
Could anyone who works in project management survive if their project cost estimates were that inaccurate?
It reminds me of one of my favorite Jon Stewart lines. He did an interview about why he satirizes the media, and he said of certain pundits “How do these people survive after writing books like Dow 36,000? Would a weatherman keep his job if he said that tomorrow it’s going to be 400 degrees and it’ll snow mice?”
I haven’t trusted Firefox since they fired Brendan Eich many years ago.
Lately I've been using Qwant, based in France. It's pretty good.
I think Yandex in Russia also offers a search engine.Replies: @Jack D
Who could have imagined 50 years ago that if you wanted politically unbiased information you could no longer trust American sources and would have to get it from Russia.
If you search for Steve Sailer on Yandex, this site comes up as the #2 link after his Twitter. On google, unz is at the moment #5.
I have been using the Yandex Android browser on my tablet because (unlike Chrome for Android) it will run Chrome desktop extensions. (Don’t ask me why Google won’t allow extensions to run under Chrome for Android since it is technically feasible). Specifically I wanted to run the “Bypass Paywalls” extension which allows you to view most soft paywalled newspaper sites without a subscription (WSJ, Washington Post, etc.) .
KGBFSB:Replies: @Jack DYou would think they'd want employees to be able to block ads and conserve their precious bandwidth.
You'd be wrong.
Agree about having to get news from Russia.
What a time to be alive.Replies: @Lot
There was a Panda algorithm update just the other day, blogged about by Aaron Wall. In general, Google algorithm updates since the original Panda have been pretty brutal for websites that have giant unchanging archives. A lot of non controversial sites have suffered from big drops in relevancy ranking. The thing that saves websites from this fate, inbound links, is just the thing that iSteve lacks because of its “everybody reads it, nobody admits to reading it” nature.
They are not.
That’s not what he means. The blog entries are excluded from the search results.
I like her description of the prosecution of Indian captive Joshua Tefft after King Philip’s War: He was either a traitor, or a coward. Either way, he was no Englishman.
You’re a moron. Thousands of blog entries written by Steve have in fact been memory-holed.
And:
MORE THAN THREE HOURS LATER, THE MEMORY-HOLING HAS NOT BEEN UNDONE.
We did. It comes up on the first page.
"Similarly, Google has disappeared..."
No. Tucker's sites also comes up on the first page.
Trying to one up your boy Trump with the gaslighting quotient? You know, he was widely panned for his interview with Fox News and Chris Wallace on Sunday. Acing a cognitive test, downplaying Covid-19**, being coy about whether he would accept the election results if he lost.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1285520211593105413
**Speaking of memory holing
https://www.unz.com/isteve/arguably-wrong-ballparks-3-different-strageties
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coronavirus-open-thread/Replies: @res, @Ben Kurtz, @Michael S, @Matthew Kelly, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Every court has its jester, @MEH 0910, @anon, @VinnyVette
How long until the Russian collusion investigation gets Trump kicked out now, you TDS-addled sack o’ crap? Remember all your well-researched pronouncements on that topic, Corvy?
You must be jonesing for some of the hard stuff. Go read some Seth Abramson or Max Boot to get another fix, you junky pervert.
No problem here with Google search. After Googling “steve sailer”, his Twitter account, Wikipedia biography and blog are the three first picks in that order.
I often see strange shifts in search results, whether they’re random or not I don’t know. Yesterday I Googled the Occidental Observer, but there were no links to the site on the first page of results (I think Wiki, SPLC and ADL were the first three in that order). I did it again just now. The first link is Wiki, and the next three are all to the Occidental Observer site.
Anyone still using Google, FaceSuck or CensorTube has only themselves to blame. It would be nice if the government enforced existing law and came after these publishers for their content management while pretending to be an unmanaged platform, but that’s not happening. LEAVE. USE AN ALTERNATIVE. TELL PEOPLE AWAY FROM KEYBOARD TO USE ALTERNATIVES.
Exactly how much vanity-googling do you have to do in order to catch yourself in one of these transient web wormholes?
If you search for Steve Sailer on Yandex, this site comes up as the #2 link after his Twitter. On google, unz is at the moment #5.
I have been using the Yandex Android browser on my tablet because (unlike Chrome for Android) it will run Chrome desktop extensions. (Don't ask me why Google won't allow extensions to run under Chrome for Android since it is technically feasible). Specifically I wanted to run the "Bypass Paywalls" extension which allows you to view most soft paywalled newspaper sites without a subscription (WSJ, Washington Post, etc.) .Replies: @J.Ross, @Johann Ricke, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Clyde
It’s not that Russians are angels, it’s that you must use triangulation. Consider that al-Jazeera, at the time a darling of news junkies for its supposedly daring reporting, got wierdly quiet in 2011 about the biggest news story in their own backyard. Russian news about Putin is probably pretty biased. But in addition American media really has become universally totally worthless. American media, both information and entertainment, really has fallen off a cliff and abandoned every standard. A recent NPR piece was unlistenable not because of undisguised Marxist bias but because it sounded like the whole thing was put together by 13 year old girls, both in the character of the questions and in the actual tones of the voices. They spent minutes babbling about ineffable personal nonsense and reactions and “who she is,” and asked a marine biologist if he felt romantic about the whales he studied. His shockingly polite answer: “uh, no.” (I would have thrown something.) They didn’t like this answer so they went over the whale romance issue repeatedly to make sure.
Could be worse. Like "Endeavour". That'd be worse.
Or my great-grandfather's first name. Ezekiel. He went by "E. Mason Roberts" all his life.Replies: @Rob McX
He wasn’t related to Oral Roberts, by any chance? That’s about the worst choice of name I’ve ever come across. It’s just not right for a preacher. He named his son Oral too.
Lol! No. Speaking about bad names, what about the mayor of Atlanta? Keisha Lance Bottoms.Replies: @Lot, @Rob McX, @Kyle, @Jim Bob Lassiter, @Stan d Mute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRf9UxsM-NEReplies: @njguy73, @Grumpy, @Kyle
Decadent is the word. It looks like they go to work in the same clothes they sleep in.
Silicon Valley is bizarre. You need millions to live on a drab street in San Jose in a house that a plumber once owned, and the plumber dressed better than the millionaire who bought his house.
I am a figment of the imagination.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/07/21/trump-cuts-legal-immigrants-by-half-and-hes-not-done-yet/#5ee49e8e6168
# winning
Never given any credit for this.
Gateway Pundit reported the same issue.
Google Disappears Gateway Pundit : Searching for “Gateway Pundit” only Brings Up Hit Pieces, BUT NO LINK TO WEBSITE …Update: They Did This With Top Conservative Websites! – Claim It Was ‘Technical Issue’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/google-disappears-gateway-pundit-searching-gateway-pundit-brings-hit-pieces-no-link-website/
This is a test of the Emergency
BroadcastingBlacklisting System. This is just a test…..Glitch or test, I don’t know. But the tests are coming and we must be careful or be ready for some pain.
I’ve always thought consumer VPNs were a honeypot.
https://www.engadget.com/hong-kong-vpn-provider-data-leak-221451110.html
I am less skepical of TOR. The Brave browser has a handy “New private window with TOR” drop-down. The Darknet is much faster than it was just a year ago. Why? I don’t know. Is Bezos letting AWS users host the gateways? isteve works fine over TOR for the text. Video links do not work.
I’d bet these “knife awareness courses” are compulsory as an alternative to prison for potentially homicidal “young offenders” who’ve been convicted of some knife-related crime. I suppose the authorities were foolish enough not to have a metal detector at each entrance.
Remember when profiling was the amazing technique that FBI agents used to identify criminals? What happened to that?
I didn’t try it but I’m sure that a search for “honest mainstream journalist” appears memoryholed, but that’s because nobody could remember when there ever was one.
Off Topic: Mexican Male Karen checks off everything we expect on White Karen’s checklist.
I suspect this immature brattiness, whether male or female, entails a failing on the father’s part. There was nobody around who cared enough to tell him/her to knock off the shit, when he/she was a child, so acting like a disgruntled teen girl became normalized.
“Well, we can be sure that the Googlemeister did not memory-hole Steve upon the basis of his coronadoom.”
I meant to hit disagree. ZHedge has orgasmically shilled for CoronaHoax the past five months and was attacked anyway by g00gle because commenters overwhelmingly called BS on the hoax. Oh yeah baby, g00gle reads our comments, QED.
This memory holing glitch in the matrix is validating my idea to start recording what Google searches record at different times. The changes are interesting.Replies: @Alexander Turok, @AKAHorace, @Hypnotoad666
I googled Steve Sailer. The most interesting thing that I found was that nine years ago he wrote a film review for the Huffington Post. This could never happen now, an editor would be cancelled.
This memory holing glitch in the matrix is validating my idea to start recording what Google searches record at different times. The changes are interesting.Replies: @Alexander Turok, @AKAHorace, @Hypnotoad666
That is an excellent idea. It doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to write some script that just constantly Googles terms and logs the results. In fact, you’d think someone would be doing this already for commercial purposes like tracking marketing trends or whatever.
But Steve has been notably silent on the Wuflu for some time now. And especially now that CA is one of the supposed centers of concern.
I miss Hail, who always had some interesting data to share on how this wasn’t the plague.
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/on-white-fragility-and-the-academia-to-mainstream-pipeline-an-investigation-into-white-fragility-theory-and-its-life-cycle-from-2011-to-2020/
And here I thought the coronavirus had got him. Hail still hasn't resumed commenting here at Unz Review.Replies: @MEH 0910
this was probably just a test run for blocking out all the rightist sites that they plan to block in the near future.
it’s the fact that bing is really pretty good now, and that there are other, smaller alternatives as well, that pretty much protects google from any anti-trust activity. of course those other resources could be compromised too eventually, but for now, they aren’t. remember, they’re still in business competition, and as google gets worse for real world use, the competitors pick up market share as long as they remain more useful.
to get rid of all of them, they’d have to be compromised all at once, even foreign based ones, and stay that way. and setting up a basic version of a web spider/robot and a server farm with load balancers isn’t that hard compared to other IT ventures. this is one of the few places where the right actually could “derr, just build your own search engine.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/breaking-us-attorney-john-durham-negotiations-people-guilty-pleas-russia-collusion-scandal/
Trump is going for the throat with the Durham investigation and if he can get the lower level schlubs to plead guilty and turn on their former superiors, that will simultaneously cut the legs out from under the left while checkmating the next level of operatives. Expect more of this.Replies: @BenKenobi, @Neoconned
Forgive me for green-texting on Unz, but:
>plan trusting in 2020
Of course if the TrumpStaffel were to be formed tomorrow I’d enlist immediately. I want to believe.
That’s almost as stupid as the TV morons who thought the 500 millon dollars Bloomberg spent on his candidacy would suffice to pay 330 million Americans a million dollars each.
How could someone be so utterly detached from the real world?
Steve, when I Google “Steve Sailer”, these are the results:
1. Your Wikipedia entry
2. Your Twitter
3. Your pinned Tweet
4. Your entry in Wikiquote
5. Your blog.
6. Your author page on unz.com
@CouldntBRighter
also what this means is they know who you are. they know who Unz is. you’re on their radar. and they’re ready to delete you from the world. contrary to Ron Unz’s foolish sentiments a few weeks ago.
when Joe Biden is President, this site will disappear from the internet within 2 years. i don’t mean you’ll be removed from search results. i mean government lawyers will lean on whoever they have to lean on to make your website go away by force of law. the only reason it won’t disappear immediately is because there will be some legal back and forth like what is happening with vdare. but eventually, the government democrat lawyers will make you disappear. they have unlimited resources and time. Weissmann and Rosenstein might even come back specifically to coordinate the operation.
am i the only guy here who can think tactically, let alone strategically. my god. what a bunch of savants. i didn’t even have to actually graduate West Point to understand this stuff. this is how a war works.
post across masthead “Banned on Google!”
Meanwhile remind Republicans everywhere, every day, of all of the times they have stood in the way of enforcement of anti-trust in the last 30 years.
“That’s not who we are”
Indeed. Brilliant. Indeed.
One of the newer search engines is showing some advantage over Google, StartPage, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Yandex for doing research on the more censored, truth-hidden topics,
It has a dorky name but its ‘powered by IBM Watson’ AI-related algorithms have quickly turned up stuff I couldn’t find re the above, and Steve Sailer is quite prominent on it
https://yippy.com/
One of the documents at the EU Commission on the crimes of Google controlling the internet – looked at through the prism of Google’s support for the CIA-Mossad Wikipedia and its fundraising fraud – is this one below.
For those who don’t know, Wikipedia is flat-out CIA-Mossad, its supremo Jimbo Wales recruited out of selling porno, his site helping paedos launder their bio. Wales parties with Israeli Presidents and got a $1 mil prize from Tel Aviv U. Many Wiki edits are straight from Langley / Tel Aviv. Wiki offers US political donors fake bio rights, plus slander rights against their victims. Wikimedia is known in Europe as a criminal organisation involved in attacks on EU citizens.
EU police and prosecutor report on crimes of Wikipedia with Google, Wikimedia fundraising fraud, and the ’20 Major Techniques of Wikipedia Deception’
http://pastebin.com/BeppgiMJ
“He wasn’t related to Oral Roberts, by any chance? That’s about the worst choice of name I’ve ever come across. It’s just not right for a preacher. He named his son Oral too.”
Lol! No. Speaking about bad names, what about the mayor of Atlanta? Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Maker of fine belted sapphic accessories.
The royal "We"? Or "We" as in Team Corvinus; a collection of New Left ladies who have given up coitus for social activism?Replies: @Corvinus
“The royal “We”?
“We” as in people who NOTICE. Mr. Sailer is feigning outrage and being hypocritical in his own right about “memory holing”, but I would not expect you to admit it. That is the major point here.
Now, as far as free speech is concerned, recall the Supreme Court has ruled in several cases that if a private company/organization creates a public forum for speech, the fact that it is a private company/organization allows its immunity from the First and Fourteenth Amendments (Hudgens v. NLRB, Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, and Central Hardware Co. v. NLRB). Perhaps the Big Bear’s lawsuit can make it to the Supreme Court and serve as the impetus for change, considering how today’s “cancel culture” is akin to the censorship of the 1950’s. And maybe what is needed is a corporate personhood amendment that can reign in social media companies. Then again, the EU may actually set the standards for other nations to follow.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/why-facebook-wants-the-eu-to-decide-the-limits-of-free-speech-1.4270126
Finally, per usual, “cancel culture” and “political correctness” needs context. Try to follow along.
Dennis Miller and Bill Maher –>
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/cancel-culture-harpers-letter-free-speech
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/a33296561/cancel-culture-a-force-for-good-or-a-threat-to-free-speech
THE BATTLE AGAINST ‘HATE SPEECH’ ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES GIVES RISE TO A GENERATION THAT HATES SPEECH–NINA BURLEIGH, NEWSWEEK, 5/26/16
Jackass,
Use a MORE tag
Like that.
“Jill Lepore could hardly be more eminent. She is a professor of American history at Harvard, the recipient of a long list of awards….”
Like that other eminent product of Harvard, historian and plagiarist, Doris Kearns Goodwin. Am I suggesting Lepore is also a plagiarist? No. But I am suggesting both use others’ material without the rigorous intellectual honesty one should be able to expect from eminent, Harvard-educated historians.
Lol! No. Speaking about bad names, what about the mayor of Atlanta? Keisha Lance Bottoms.Replies: @Lot, @Rob McX, @Kyle, @Jim Bob Lassiter, @Stan d Mute
“ Keisha Lance Bottoms”
Maker of fine belted sapphic accessories.
This is a standard SEO task. There are local applications, like Advanced Web Ranking, and many online services, like Ahrefs.
They cost money.
You enter:
— URLs of pages that you want to track
— URLs of pages of competitors you want to track
— Lists of keywords (search queries, which can be phrases) that people looking for your site might tend to use. You try to verify that these are popular keywords, since who cares if you come up number 1 for a search nobody uses. To this end there are addition SEO tools to help you evaulate keywords, but it’s gotten harder to do as Google has obfuscated search terms.
Your software then runs these search terms through Google, Google Mobile, and other search engines on a schedule. Google doesn’t like automated searches and blocks them if detected, so they searches need to be spaced out and randomized.
The end result after a period of time are graphs showing over time the ranking of your pages, your competition’s pages, and other pages, for each keyword or for bundles of keywords.
I’ve done this for many, many years, and I can tell you that sites disappear from the rankings all the time for no apparent reason. In my opinion it is unlikely that this had a political cause. There was a core Google algorithm change in early May, and it has been rolling out ever since. These changes happen multiple times per year. There are tools to track the effects of these algorithm changes and SEO websites and forums that report on them, like Moz, examining large lists of diverse websites looking for patterns. Nobody outside of the conservative blogosphere is reporting any political slant to the latest ranking losers at this point.
"We" as in people who NOTICE. Mr. Sailer is feigning outrage and being hypocritical in his own right about "memory holing", but I would not expect you to admit it. That is the major point here.Now, as far as free speech is concerned, recall the Supreme Court has ruled in several cases that if a private company/organization creates a public forum for speech, the fact that it is a private company/organization allows its immunity from the First and Fourteenth Amendments (Hudgens v. NLRB, Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, and Central Hardware Co. v. NLRB). Perhaps the Big Bear's lawsuit can make it to the Supreme Court and serve as the impetus for change, considering how today's "cancel culture" is akin to the censorship of the 1950's. And maybe what is needed is a corporate personhood amendment that can reign in social media companies. Then again, the EU may actually set the standards for other nations to follow.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/why-facebook-wants-the-eu-to-decide-the-limits-of-free-speech-1.4270126Finally, per usual, "cancel culture" and "political correctness" needs context. Try to follow along.Dennis Miller and Bill Maher --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipwMa5uT5eshttps://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/cancel-culture-harpers-letter-free-speechhttps://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/a33296561/cancel-culture-a-force-for-good-or-a-threat-to-free-speechTHE BATTLE AGAINST ‘HATE SPEECH’ ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES GIVES RISE TO A GENERATION THAT HATES SPEECH--NINA BURLEIGH, NEWSWEEK, 5/26/16Replies: @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Rob
So, the royal We or a gaggle of ancient New Left ladies?
I'll borrow a line here--Doubling down on your obtuseness is not a good look. There was a plethora of i-Steve material in what I wrote. Go back, re-read, and NOTICE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRf9UxsM-NEReplies: @njguy73, @Grumpy, @Kyle
And their hair cuts. My god.
Steve,
Maybe it’s because I’m outside the 48, but when I google “Steve Sailer,” your blog is the third hit after your Twitter and Wikipedia entry.
I also never noticed any shadowbanning of Unz Review, despite Ron’s claim.
Also, my employer’s content filter still doesn’t disallow Unz Review, although you cannot access AmRen.
Lol! No. Speaking about bad names, what about the mayor of Atlanta? Keisha Lance Bottoms.Replies: @Lot, @Rob McX, @Kyle, @Jim Bob Lassiter, @Stan d Mute
Actually, it’s one field of endeavour where blacks don’t need affirmative action, so they can’t be allowed to compete in the contest – otherwise this guy would wind hands down.
We did. It comes up on the first page.
"Similarly, Google has disappeared..."
No. Tucker's sites also comes up on the first page.
Trying to one up your boy Trump with the gaslighting quotient? You know, he was widely panned for his interview with Fox News and Chris Wallace on Sunday. Acing a cognitive test, downplaying Covid-19**, being coy about whether he would accept the election results if he lost.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1285520211593105413
**Speaking of memory holing
https://www.unz.com/isteve/arguably-wrong-ballparks-3-different-strageties
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coronavirus-open-thread/Replies: @res, @Ben Kurtz, @Michael S, @Matthew Kelly, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Every court has its jester, @MEH 0910, @anon, @VinnyVette
And we’re glad you offer regular entertainment on this blog.
In other news, Trump’s unfitness for office and every other flaw he has have been beaten to death by every major media outlet, so there’s nothing more to add here. Noticing anything else is rare and that’s what makes Sailer so useful.
Stuff disappearing from Google search results could be caused by anything, from a glitch in the code to someone messing with the code in real time as a prank to a polemical group of Google employees deliberately testing the waters. There’s no transparency when it comes to coding so we can never know. However, the fact that noone aligned with the political left has ever complained about being suppressed online should tell you something.
Quibbling over numbers is the wrong question to ask.
The proper question is so, how many inflicted injuries were the result of 100.00% lawful, legal actions that any non-political jury would instantly acquit?
If there is a remainer, where the law was technically broken, how many are more deserving of the Darwin award than our sympathy?
Police inflicted injuries will go down when people stop commiting crimes and resisting arrest.
Yes, they are indeed coming for us.Replies: @Known Fact, @Chrisnonymous
Impossible. What about the Lord Voldemort Effect Shield?
I googled 'Steve Sailer' and your sites were the 3 top hits.Replies: @Hippopotamusdrome
steve s
Autocompletes and the 4th portrait is Steve. See why they need to start thinking about some cancelling now?
If you search for Steve Sailer on Yandex, this site comes up as the #2 link after his Twitter. On google, unz is at the moment #5.
I have been using the Yandex Android browser on my tablet because (unlike Chrome for Android) it will run Chrome desktop extensions. (Don't ask me why Google won't allow extensions to run under Chrome for Android since it is technically feasible). Specifically I wanted to run the "Bypass Paywalls" extension which allows you to view most soft paywalled newspaper sites without a subscription (WSJ, Washington Post, etc.) .Replies: @J.Ross, @Johann Ricke, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Clyde
This is fine, as long as you have no information that might be interesting to the
KGBFSB:I went to several blogs and the twitter accounts of conservative and/or pro-Trump/anti-prog accounts this morning and they were ALL misssing.
Hours later, they were back.
The blog of Kevin Rhodes in MN, healthy-skeptic, stopped working in google on an android phone but not on a desktop. hm.
duckduckgo and Brave are your friends.
More thought has gone into those two outfits than for the average starlet’s red carpet ensemble.
For instance:
1. Larry Page is wearing a “Google Yellow” T-shirt; Sergey Brin’s is “Google Blue”.
2. Page has a “Google Yellow” microphone windsock; Brin’s is “Google Blue”.
3. Page stands to our left, Brin to our right (i.e., in the correct color order for the Google logo – the second o is yellow, the second g is blue). Together they spell OG. Make of that what you will.
There’s no decadence on show here; just the same subliminal messaging you’ll find at any corporate event.
Now about that middle name I just discovered by googling you...Replies: @Kylie, @the one they call Desanex, @MEH 0910, @Mr Mox
That was Steve’s late father’s first name.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/ernie-sailer-1917-2012/
Lol! No. Speaking about bad names, what about the mayor of Atlanta? Keisha Lance Bottoms.Replies: @Lot, @Rob McX, @Kyle, @Jim Bob Lassiter, @Stan d Mute
Keisha lance bottoms isn’t a bad name. She’s pretty. I wouldn’t mind…, you can see where I’m going with this.
I think there have been brief instances of this before. Might not be a test but some “premature anti-fascist” jumping the gun and activating an existing bit of censorship code without authorization before being caught.
That it happened is not of as much interest as the speed with which the usual malevolent sock puppets jumped on this post and literally expected you to believe it never happened at all.
Comrade Yezhov never existed!
https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes!
We did. It comes up on the first page.
"Similarly, Google has disappeared..."
No. Tucker's sites also comes up on the first page.
Trying to one up your boy Trump with the gaslighting quotient? You know, he was widely panned for his interview with Fox News and Chris Wallace on Sunday. Acing a cognitive test, downplaying Covid-19**, being coy about whether he would accept the election results if he lost.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1285520211593105413
**Speaking of memory holing
https://www.unz.com/isteve/arguably-wrong-ballparks-3-different-strageties
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coronavirus-open-thread/Replies: @res, @Ben Kurtz, @Michael S, @Matthew Kelly, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Every court has its jester, @MEH 0910, @anon, @VinnyVette
I saw with my own eyes that Unz Review itself didn’t show up in a Google search yesterday.
All those ‘true conservatives’ into ‘muh constitution’ who defend corporate censorship on grounds that private entities can do as they want, why are they not outraged by the STATE’s clampdown on BDS? That’s about the government enforcing censorship of views. Also, would these ‘true conservatives’ be okay with major companies banning Zionists on account of Israel being a supremacist state built on a hateful ideology? I doubt it. Just shameless shills who will say and do anything for 30 pieces of silver.
Also, two issues are related that simply cannot be overlooked.
1. Companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are monopolies…
… and furthermore…
2. … they gained Monopoly Status ONLY BECAUSE they promised neutrality to users. If, at the very outset, they had laid out their future Terms of Service favoring Zionists & the ‘left’ over Arabs & the ‘right’, MANY PEOPLE would never have used their services or signed up to join. They would have joined a different platform. So, for those companies to gain monopoly status by promising neutrality and then use their monopoly power for partisan and tribal purposes is utterly unethical and should be illegal.
As for financial services connected to banks, how are they able to discriminate on the basis of creed when they got bail out money from ALL AMERICANS? All Americans are forced to pay taxes to bail out banks, but banks and financial institutions can deny service to SOME Americans?
Utterly ludicrous. But where are the lawyers making these cases?
Regular guys dress like that? Like Sergey in that clip?
Sundar Pichai in his black hoodie is dressed like a normal guy. Who is going for a jog or picking up doughnuts on a Saturday. This is not the way a CEO should dress. I have no doubt that Sundar thinks this is all weird and he just does it to fit in. Sundar is the only normal person at the top of Google.
Sergey fried his brain.
"We" as in people who NOTICE. Mr. Sailer is feigning outrage and being hypocritical in his own right about "memory holing", but I would not expect you to admit it. That is the major point here.Now, as far as free speech is concerned, recall the Supreme Court has ruled in several cases that if a private company/organization creates a public forum for speech, the fact that it is a private company/organization allows its immunity from the First and Fourteenth Amendments (Hudgens v. NLRB, Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, and Central Hardware Co. v. NLRB). Perhaps the Big Bear's lawsuit can make it to the Supreme Court and serve as the impetus for change, considering how today's "cancel culture" is akin to the censorship of the 1950's. And maybe what is needed is a corporate personhood amendment that can reign in social media companies. Then again, the EU may actually set the standards for other nations to follow.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/why-facebook-wants-the-eu-to-decide-the-limits-of-free-speech-1.4270126Finally, per usual, "cancel culture" and "political correctness" needs context. Try to follow along.Dennis Miller and Bill Maher --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipwMa5uT5eshttps://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/cancel-culture-harpers-letter-free-speechhttps://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/a33296561/cancel-culture-a-force-for-good-or-a-threat-to-free-speechTHE BATTLE AGAINST ‘HATE SPEECH’ ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES GIVES RISE TO A GENERATION THAT HATES SPEECH--NINA BURLEIGH, NEWSWEEK, 5/26/16Replies: @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Rob
Jesus, you must be a blast to be with…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_(1940_film)
Lol! No. Speaking about bad names, what about the mayor of Atlanta? Keisha Lance Bottoms.Replies: @Lot, @Rob McX, @Kyle, @Jim Bob Lassiter, @Stan d Mute
At least Keisha has an excuse. She’s black. This Oral business defies explanation.
“I saw with my own eyes that Unz Review itself didn’t show up in a Google search yesterday.”
Contact –>
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6223687?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en
https://giphy.com/explore/the-more-you-know
Speaking of being memory holed…
If you search for Steve Sailer on Yandex, this site comes up as the #2 link after his Twitter. On google, unz is at the moment #5.
I have been using the Yandex Android browser on my tablet because (unlike Chrome for Android) it will run Chrome desktop extensions. (Don't ask me why Google won't allow extensions to run under Chrome for Android since it is technically feasible). Specifically I wanted to run the "Bypass Paywalls" extension which allows you to view most soft paywalled newspaper sites without a subscription (WSJ, Washington Post, etc.) .Replies: @J.Ross, @Johann Ricke, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Clyde
Chrome for Android sounds like my employer’s IT department, which blocks me from installing ad-block extensions on the browsers on my work PC.
You would think they’d want employees to be able to block ads and conserve their precious bandwidth.
You’d be wrong.
Agree about having to get news from Russia.
What a time to be alive.
Ads are a major source of malware spread.
Further, adblockers tend to blacklist malware domains, so they can stop someone who clicks an email link to a virus. This isn’t great protection as they rotate domains quickly, but if the email is from 10+ days ago it might. They may also just be sloppy and use the blacklisted domain they already have ready access to.
I searched for you on Duckduckgo and you came up no problem.
Everybody should avoid google.
Philip K. Dick would have loved this epoch.
From "Eye in the Sky".
Replies: @JimB
If you regularly get news from the Trump campaign and if you delete a couple of posts without reading them, Google mail helpfully asks you if you want to block the Trump campaign website.
That it happened is not of as much interest as the speed with which the usual malevolent sock puppets jumped on this post and literally expected you to believe it never happened at all.
Comrade Yezhov never existed!
https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes!Replies: @J.Ross
This, it’s not conspiracy versus rogue employee, it’s both. You have both the overall programmatic progressivism (which has to recognize certain limits) plus the hotter-headed individuals who might try something on their own.
Bing had a message about standing with BLM on their home page for like 2 weeks. No more.
I’m assuming they (Google) fear that Biden will actually flop harder than Hillary in 2016. Does anyone want to make any side bets on a 2020 Trump landslide?
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/07/betting-on-trumpslide.html
google employees like to put things in their holes.
Steve, be grateful your platform is not YouTube! Any thoughts on the great purge going on there?
“Rachel Maddow” on Google: First two results are her personal page and MSNBC page.
“Tucker Carlson” on Google:
Result 1 is biased wiki page
2 is a “Vultue.com” accusation of “sexual misconduct”
3 is CNN saying his “writer quits after secretly posting racist...”
His Fox page doesn’t come until 7, and his personal homepage isn’t in the first 30 results at all.
Bigger question for some of you: why haven’t you switched yet to Brave Browser and DuckDuckGo?Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @PiltdownMan
What is the advantage of Brave over Vivaldi? (I’m not interested in getting involved in cryptocurrency.)
2. Brave’s founder is an iSteve commenter.
3. You can turn the crypto thing off if it isn’t already by default. It doesn’t mine, as in waste a lot of electricity, it gives you “micropayments” for the ads you opt into.
OT: Here’s a post on a tenured engineering professor’s experience with the DIE nazis at his state school: https://spectator.org/diversity-inclusion-enforcement-professors-account-title-ix-investigation-odi-university/
They are all worried that Trump will win again.
https://www.rt.com/news/495445-google-hides-conservative-alt-news/
Next time, guaranteed, they will be more subtle.
Better yet, just have someone at the door who can profile those who wish to enter. If someone looks like an undesirable; send him packing.
Remember when profiling was the amazing technique that FBI agents used to identify criminals? What happened to that?
See, now I don’t get that. You and another commenter (maybe on the another post from today) bring up using a search engine to get to this site. You and the other commenter both are on here a lot. Why would you need the search engine rather than simply typing in 7 characters, and probably only one or two if you’ve used the browser on that device before recently (text completion)?
How hard is it to type in unz.com? I ask you this, Art, because I do see loads of people do this to get to websites they go to all the time. I know these simple URLs, unz, vdare, peakstupidity, zerohedge, instapundit, etc, by heart, like I know the phone numbers of people, family or friends, who’ve had the same mobile or land lines for a long time.
Art Deco, you are a dope.
Drudge Report was included in that trial-purge too. I guess Google hasn’t gotten the memo that DR is now on Team Biden.
Put down the bong.
They took down Stefan Molyneux the damn Youtube b@stards.
I tried googling you and it worked fine. You came up in the results with twitter, unz, wikipedia, etc. I wouldn’t use google anymore regardless. Google is designed to influence search and drive traffic to some ideas while suppressing others. The only reliable way to get around that is to pay them to rank you with AdWords campaigns. They intentionally killed SEO years ago.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Looks like everyone is back.
So this was just a rehearsal for tactical operations of the mostly peaceful cancelers at Google in the Fall.
A trial balloon to see how quickly anyone noticed?
My guess: A group of lone wolves operating within Google with no specific directive from the top, but still the exodus operandi for Google/Youtube.
Okay but what color were they?
All this puts me in mind of the prequels to the attempted coup that led to the Spanish Civil War and ultimately Franco, and Pinochet overthrowing Allende, and Hitler coming to power.
Everyone knows all about the fierce bad man. What they forget about are the abuses of power on the part of the Left that brought it on.
When Bani Sadr had to flee Iran, a Farsi rhyme went like this in translation - "Bani Sadr is like Pinochet/Under his moustache it says USA".
KGBFSB:Replies: @Jack DFor those that don’t trust Yandex (personally I don’t think I have anything that would interest the FSB) there is also the Kiwi Android browser, which likewise runs Chrome extensions. I believe Kiwi is the product of an independent developer (a one man show) from France .
https://techwiser.com/best-chromium-browsers-for-android/Replies: @Jack D
I found your blog fine.
O/T, there was a shooting in Chicago of a funeral of a shooting victim.
14 wounded so far.
#BLS
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=steve%20sailer&geo=US
One odd thing is it is showing a spike to 2x the usual volume and a breakout related query: [email protected]
Strange stuff. I wonder if it has something to do with the memory holing mechanism.
In contrast, Ron just seems to have been disappeared. Current interest to 0 and no related queries, plus the only related topic is Wikipedia.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=ron%20unz&geo=US
P.S. I am amazed they memory holed Tucker. That seems too over the top to ignore.Replies: @CrunchyButRealistCon
Compared the search results for ‘Steve Sailer’ on duckduckgo, startpage & yahoo, and all three seem alright. Appears duckduckgo lists your blog description at unz.com as first result while the other two tend to favor wikipedia in rank.
“So, the royal We or a gaggle of ancient New Left ladies?”
I’ll borrow a line here–Doubling down on your obtuseness is not a good look. There was a plethora of i-Steve material in what I wrote. Go back, re-read, and NOTICE.
Does anyone have a list from after the 2016 election on which Democratic-orientated pollsters thought it would be a very close election or thought Trump would actually win?
One of our regular columnists warned me this morning that we’d been totally “disappeared” from Google results, and that was the case for most of the day. It was only a couple of hours ago I discovered that lots of other “conservative” websites had suffered a similar fate.
However, Google had actually de-ranked all of our pages in early May, which caused an immediate drop of 15% or more in our regular traffic:
https://www.unz.com/announcement/record-breaking-traffic-despite-our-purge-from-google-and-facebook/
Virtually almost none of our pages ever come up in Google searches unless you include the term “unz” in the search string, which means nobody will find our content unless they’re specifically looking for it. The change this morning was that all the pages disappeared with or without “unz.”
For example, one of my own articles had spent the last ten years generally ranked #2 in some pretty common Google searches that return around 200 million(!) results. But since May it’s been totally disappeared, though it’s still ranked #1 or #2 by Bing and DuckDuckGo. Similar sorts of things for lots of other pages on this website.
Presumably, the Google people today temporarily applied the same technique to a bunch of other websites, which is the problem with having an unregulated monopoly be the gatekeeper to the Internet.
as a nothing person, Google finally, found a way to find where I was scurrying with nuggets of nuthin’ nor information…so they shut that door. But, because they are such rich f*cks, they will have to shut their kids’ education or their servants services for people not to find a back door. I hate them so much. I want them to suffer.
However, Google had actually de-ranked all of our pages in early May, which caused an immediate drop of 15% or more in our regular traffic:
https://www.unz.com/announcement/record-breaking-traffic-despite-our-purge-from-google-and-facebook/
Virtually almost none of our pages ever come up in Google searches unless you include the term "unz" in the search string, which means nobody will find our content unless they're specifically looking for it. The change this morning was that all the pages disappeared with or without "unz."
For example, one of my own articles had spent the last ten years generally ranked #2 in some pretty common Google searches that return around 200 million(!) results. But since May it's been totally disappeared, though it's still ranked #1 or #2 by Bing and DuckDuckGo. Similar sorts of things for lots of other pages on this website.
Presumably, the Google people today temporarily applied the same technique to a bunch of other websites, which is the problem with having an unregulated monopoly be the gatekeeper to the Internet.Replies: @Kronos, @Neoconned
Any idea if Google has given the same treatment to true leftist/socialist/anti-war websites?
lists do not apply to Change Agents.
1. Brave has adblock built in.
2. Brave’s founder is an iSteve commenter.
3. You can turn the crypto thing off if it isn’t already by default. It doesn’t mine, as in waste a lot of electricity, it gives you “micropayments” for the ads you opt into.
You would think they'd want employees to be able to block ads and conserve their precious bandwidth.
You'd be wrong.
Agree about having to get news from Russia.
What a time to be alive.Replies: @Lot
“ You would think they’d want employees to be able to block ads and conserve their precious bandwidth.”
Ads are a major source of malware spread.
Further, adblockers tend to blacklist malware domains, so they can stop someone who clicks an email link to a virus. This isn’t great protection as they rotate domains quickly, but if the email is from 10+ days ago it might. They may also just be sloppy and use the blacklisted domain they already have ready access to.
If you search for Steve Sailer on Yandex, this site comes up as the #2 link after his Twitter. On google, unz is at the moment #5.
I have been using the Yandex Android browser on my tablet because (unlike Chrome for Android) it will run Chrome desktop extensions. (Don't ask me why Google won't allow extensions to run under Chrome for Android since it is technically feasible). Specifically I wanted to run the "Bypass Paywalls" extension which allows you to view most soft paywalled newspaper sites without a subscription (WSJ, Washington Post, etc.) .Replies: @J.Ross, @Johann Ricke, @The Wild Geese Howard, @Clyde
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
It seems to work. Tested it on the WSJ…… Thanks
Same here. I still have it but use it for just a few websites. Brave and Chrome are what I use.
VDARE is being memoryholed. i googled “Michelle Malkin anarcho-tyranny”, compare the bing and google results, google does not list vdare article, bing has it second.
OT:
I cannot vouch for their android versions but in Windows you have Brave that runs chrome extensions. Chromium also.
https://techwiser.com/best-chromium-browsers-for-android/
“Rachel Maddow” on Google: First two results are her personal page and MSNBC page.
“Tucker Carlson” on Google:
Result 1 is biased wiki page
2 is a “Vultue.com” accusation of “sexual misconduct”
3 is CNN saying his “writer quits after secretly posting racist...”
His Fox page doesn’t come until 7, and his personal homepage isn’t in the first 30 results at all.
Bigger question for some of you: why haven’t you switched yet to Brave Browser and DuckDuckGo?Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @PiltdownMan
I’ve had DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for a couple of years, and it works well, except, occasionally, Google image search will yield better, more focused results when I’m looking for a suitable image to illustrate a point.
In other news, Detroit is still not social distancing, let alone Black Lives Mattering:
https://twitter.com/RayGarciahawaii/status/1285483420420837376?s=20
Did I?
I don’t recall ever writing for the Huffington Post.
Twitter bans QAnon for some reason:
Twitter bans ‘QAnon activity & content’ in sweeping censorship move… bringing national attention to fringe conspiracies
https://www.huffpost.com/author/steve-sailer
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/polanskis-emghost-writere_b_547444
https://www.takimag.com/article/polanskis_ghost_writer_and_americanising_britain/
Maybe it was really Al Yankovic.
Huffington Post = Puffing hot snot.Replies: @Clyde
This is impossibe. iSteve has always been a writer for the Huffington Post. Any remembrance as to the contrary must, and shall be …. corrected.
Twitter bans QAnon for some reason:
Twitter bans ‘QAnon activity & content’ in sweeping censorship move… bringing national attention to fringe conspiracies
Now about that middle name I just discovered by googling you...Replies: @Kylie, @the one they call Desanex, @MEH 0910, @Mr Mox
“The Importance of Being Ernest” ?
OP: This happened to a lot of sites today, briefly. Lion of the Blogosphere complained. Socialist sites got whacked.
The Libertarian International asked members in every country to check and reported that it was in most but not all the US only…but NOT in Congressional offices (I’m always amazed at the Libertarian’s info from having people on ground all over the place). I relate this to the strange stuff with Twitter the other day.
Just checked your name and “Google has memoryholed my blog…” UNZ comes out on top.
There are Inz, and there is Unz, and never the twain shall meet.
Weird Al Yankovic = Awaken lyric void.
Huffington Post = Puffing hot snot.
It looks like Huffington Post reposted a movie review that you did for Taki’s Magazine.
https://www.huffpost.com/author/steve-sailer
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/polanskis-emghost-writere_b_547444
https://www.takimag.com/article/polanskis_ghost_writer_and_americanising_britain/
We did. It comes up on the first page.
"Similarly, Google has disappeared..."
No. Tucker's sites also comes up on the first page.
Trying to one up your boy Trump with the gaslighting quotient? You know, he was widely panned for his interview with Fox News and Chris Wallace on Sunday. Acing a cognitive test, downplaying Covid-19**, being coy about whether he would accept the election results if he lost.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1285520211593105413
**Speaking of memory holing
https://www.unz.com/isteve/arguably-wrong-ballparks-3-different-strageties
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coronavirus-open-thread/Replies: @res, @Ben Kurtz, @Michael S, @Matthew Kelly, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Every court has its jester, @MEH 0910, @anon, @VinnyVette
The Lincoln Project guys have whipped up a good campaign ad from the FOX interview:
https://www.parkinsons.va.gov/resources/MOCA-Test-English.pdf
It is not particularly difficult; But President Trump has reason to be proud if he aced it.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/21/lincoln-project-founders-have-ties-to-russia-tax-troubles-docs/
This is old news.
Little grasshopper has been shadowbanned at Goolag for years.
Bing. Different story, though Ixquick/Startpage is convenient.
Steve and Ron got enough clout that they just mess with them so far, nothing permanent.
IOW those in charge of the projector for the electronic version of Plato’s cave are in charge though they try not to make it too obvious.
No, it doesn’t make any difference if you voted for them or not because that’s only supposed to be the way it works if you really live in a real cave, not a fake one online.
Huffington Post = Puffing hot snot.Replies: @Clyde
You are getting good at this.
From the Daily Mail:
“Google may have a ‘secret blacklist’ of conservative news outlets, a former engineer at the company has claimed, which was exposed on Tuesday when certain websites briefly vanished from Google search results.
Mike Wacker, a Google engineer who was fired from the company in June 2019 amid a row over his conservative ideology, said the brief incident on Tuesday suggested a ‘blacklist’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8547049/Ex-engineer-Google-says-glitch-blocked-conservative-websites-exposed-secret-internal-list.html
Here's a very convincing statement from google:( https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch-blocking-websites-including-drudge-breitbart-could-have-revealed-a-mysterious-list/ )
Unz Review disappeared as a result for a while with me, first up was wickedpedia’s and the b’nai brith org’s nasty comments on Mister Unz.
Back now.
"Google may have a 'secret blacklist' of conservative news outlets, a former engineer at the company has claimed, which was exposed on Tuesday when certain websites briefly vanished from Google search results.
Mike Wacker, a Google engineer who was fired from the company in June 2019 amid a row over his conservative ideology, said the brief incident on Tuesday suggested a 'blacklist'."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8547049/Ex-engineer-Google-says-glitch-blocked-conservative-websites-exposed-secret-internal-list.htmlReplies: @vhrm, @El Dato, @anon
i like the mediaote article better (though i too got there via dailymail).
Here’s a very convincing statement from google:
( https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch-blocking-websites-including-drudge-breitbart-could-have-revealed-a-mysterious-list/ )
"Google may have a 'secret blacklist' of conservative news outlets, a former engineer at the company has claimed, which was exposed on Tuesday when certain websites briefly vanished from Google search results.
Mike Wacker, a Google engineer who was fired from the company in June 2019 amid a row over his conservative ideology, said the brief incident on Tuesday suggested a 'blacklist'."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8547049/Ex-engineer-Google-says-glitch-blocked-conservative-websites-exposed-secret-internal-list.htmlReplies: @vhrm, @El Dato, @anon
The modern, correct wording is a “denylist”.
I miss Hail, who always had some interesting data to share on how this wasn’t the plague.Replies: @Simon Tugmutton, @Jim Don Bob, @MEH 0910
This is Hail’s blog:
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/
OT:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Kris%20Jong-Un%22&src=trend_click
Kanye West Tried To Divorce Kim Kardashian And Has A Meltdown On Twitter
https://twitter.com/CharlieNash/status/1285616706904301569
https://twitter.com/CharlieNash/status/1285631438902132743Replies: @Mr McKenna
It appears to have been about 90% right and alt-right sites delisted, with about 5% fringe-left and plain old fringe added in for plausible deniability.
https://www.rt.com/news/495445-google-hides-conservative-alt-news/
Next time, guaranteed, they will be more subtle.
Seems ok in the UK. Top result is your Wikipedia entry, second is your Twitter and third is a link to your blog.
In the UK there is no problem. 1st entry is Wikipedia page, 2nd Twitter feed, 3rd blog, 4th blog archives.
The first definite hit that’s not you is on the last entry on the 3rd page of Google.
That’s why I “deleted”* my google accounts a few months ago. As the twitter hack shows, all it takes is one rouge employee to leak your data or blackmail you. If you think that mid-level google employees can’t read your emails, your YouTube comments, your YouTube history, your purchase history and your search history, you’re kidding yourself.
As for UNZ.com, I have never entered my email into his database, but he has my IP. If the SPLC got a hold of UNZ’s data, we could all get blackmailed.
*Can we trust Google to delete our data when we tell them to? I don’t think so. Even if they make an honest effort to delete your data, it’s not deleted. It’s bound to be backed up in multiple places, it could even be on an employee’s laptop because he needed to do a backup before making a potentially breaking change to the system.
"Google may have a 'secret blacklist' of conservative news outlets, a former engineer at the company has claimed, which was exposed on Tuesday when certain websites briefly vanished from Google search results.
Mike Wacker, a Google engineer who was fired from the company in June 2019 amid a row over his conservative ideology, said the brief incident on Tuesday suggested a 'blacklist'."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8547049/Ex-engineer-Google-says-glitch-blocked-conservative-websites-exposed-secret-internal-list.htmlReplies: @vhrm, @El Dato, @anon
Of course they have a blacklist. Do you know what else they have? They have a system that tracks people who visit websites on the blacklist. It’s not necessarily a policy coming form the top. This could be the work of a sole woke employee at the company. People who don’t work in tech don’t understand how much access IT workers have to personal and sensitive data. You think that there is a magical wall between the IT workers and the database, not true. Mid to low-level IT workers can probably see everything.
I think you’re seeing things, my dear chap. Your sites didn’t disappear. Maybe you’re working too hard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_(1940_film)
Everyone knows all about the fierce bad man. What they forget about are the abuses of power on the part of the Left that brought it on.Replies: @Wielgus
Pinochet was the classic US shill, also beloved of Margaret Thatcher.
When Bani Sadr had to flee Iran, a Farsi rhyme went like this in translation – “Bani Sadr is like Pinochet/Under his moustache it says USA”.
I miss Hail, who always had some interesting data to share on how this wasn’t the plague.Replies: @Simon Tugmutton, @Jim Don Bob, @MEH 0910
Here is Angelo Codevilla on TPTB using the Kung Flu to strengthen their grip on power: https://americanmind.org/essays/the-covid-coup/
If its Codevilla, it is a must read.
I’ve been following this blog occasionally for a decade now. Even though I have it bookmarked somewhere in my favorites, I would always put “isteve” in google because it was faster for me. And the search result was always the same: Steve’s blog would always be at the top of searches, along with the movie “x”. But earlier this May, that changed.
Entering the term “isteve” would no longer show a link to Steve’s blog as before, but only a link to Steve Jobs’ biopic. To find a link to Steve’s blog, I had to go through, depending on the day, 5-15 pages of google search results.
So, after a few days, I started putting “isteve unz” in google search engine. The result: Steve’s blog showing again in the top of the search results. Until yesterday afternoon.
Since then, multiple entries of the term “isteve unz” would result in links to Steve’s wiki page, his twitter address, a couple of links to pinterest and facebook pages where his blog was mentioned, but the direct link to the blog disappeared from the first page of search results.
Then I saw on twitter that Rod Dreher was complaining of the same problem with his blog.
However, today (1PM CET- I am writing this from Central Europe) the situation has returned to normal. At least that’s what it looks like – for now.
This is not something new. About 8-10 years ago, while following Moldbug’s Unqualified Reservations blog, I came across a post dedicated to the sudden disappearance of the (now defunct) NRx blog “Mangan’s” from Google search results.
Moldbug then speculated that it was a private revenge of a Google employee who obviously did not like the content of the blog. It was an extremely unusual and odd situation, so that explanation sounded logical at the time, but, from today’s perspective, this does not seem to be the case.
In any case, the normalization of google search results today compared to yesterday could be the result of a reaction from authors and readers.
But it’s also possible that the google team is simply brazenly toying with search results – deindexing „troublesome“ pages for a while, and once it’s detected and provoked a reaction, the same people return all search results to their previous state and then cynically accuse anyone who objected – the authors of politically incorrect / conservative / right-wing blogs and their readers – as liars and paranoids.
This is already happening in some comments on twitter.
We did. It comes up on the first page.
"Similarly, Google has disappeared..."
No. Tucker's sites also comes up on the first page.
Trying to one up your boy Trump with the gaslighting quotient? You know, he was widely panned for his interview with Fox News and Chris Wallace on Sunday. Acing a cognitive test, downplaying Covid-19**, being coy about whether he would accept the election results if he lost.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1285520211593105413
**Speaking of memory holing
https://www.unz.com/isteve/arguably-wrong-ballparks-3-different-strageties
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coronavirus-open-thread/Replies: @res, @Ben Kurtz, @Michael S, @Matthew Kelly, @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Every court has its jester, @MEH 0910, @anon, @VinnyVette
You need a knew handle something like… Trolliusmaximus would be a good fit.
Alt Right leader Vox Day has his own narrative.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/07/mailvox-irrelevance-of-google.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsaO3v4SvwAReplies: @Sam Malone, @anon, @anon
Unfortunately I have to admit that’s pretty good.
I wrote this in August of 2017 about GOOGLE:https://www.unz.com/isteve/when-will-vicious-nobodies-like-james-damore-stop-oppressing-billionaire-nepocrats/#comment-1963164
Tweets from 2015, still fresh:
https://twitter.com/CharlesPewitt/status/579385331109130240?s=20
https://twitter.com/CharlesPewitt/status/579020246343950337?s=20
https://twitter.com/CharlesPewitt/status/577963523738828801?s=20Replies: @kaganovitch
Welcome back Charles! I for one , have missed your ‘on the one hand , on the other hand’ analysis.
Speaking of morons, this is what Steve wrote:
At least Steve’s borderline-nutso interest in Jewish Southrons has been taken up by… Michael Goodwin of the NY Post? What manner of absurdity could be next this year..?
“Andrew Jackson: The Musical,” starring Dwayne Johnson?
“Pat Buchanan: The Special Bitchute Limited Variety Hour,” starring Jordan Peterson?
Guy Kawasaki said his Hawaiian politician father taught him always to dress better than one’s customers or clients or, in Hiram’s case, voters. It’s a matter of showing respect.
Very good advice, but Guy, who spends a lot of time around SV VCs and is somewhat of one himself now, has since learned to water this down. Evidently if you wear a tie in San Mateo County you’re a snob or something.
They must owe you some $ then.
Take and then dox them for funding a right-wing extremist 😉
Lol! No. Speaking about bad names, what about the mayor of Atlanta? Keisha Lance Bottoms.Replies: @Lot, @Rob McX, @Kyle, @Jim Bob Lassiter, @Stan d Mute
Say, does she have a brother named Keister Bottoms?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsaO3v4SvwAReplies: @Sam Malone, @anon, @anon
The test Chris Wallace talks much about is this:
https://www.parkinsons.va.gov/resources/MOCA-Test-English.pdf
It is not particularly difficult; But President Trump has reason to be proud if he aced it.
I have similar results.
1. en.wikipeadia.org
2. twitter.com
3. en.wikiquote.org
4. unz.com
5. rationalwiki.org
6. muckrack.com
7. openboarders.info
☮
Just a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
No worries, right?
"We" as in people who NOTICE. Mr. Sailer is feigning outrage and being hypocritical in his own right about "memory holing", but I would not expect you to admit it. That is the major point here.Now, as far as free speech is concerned, recall the Supreme Court has ruled in several cases that if a private company/organization creates a public forum for speech, the fact that it is a private company/organization allows its immunity from the First and Fourteenth Amendments (Hudgens v. NLRB, Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, and Central Hardware Co. v. NLRB). Perhaps the Big Bear's lawsuit can make it to the Supreme Court and serve as the impetus for change, considering how today's "cancel culture" is akin to the censorship of the 1950's. And maybe what is needed is a corporate personhood amendment that can reign in social media companies. Then again, the EU may actually set the standards for other nations to follow.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/why-facebook-wants-the-eu-to-decide-the-limits-of-free-speech-1.4270126Finally, per usual, "cancel culture" and "political correctness" needs context. Try to follow along.Dennis Miller and Bill Maher --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipwMa5uT5eshttps://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/cancel-culture-harpers-letter-free-speechhttps://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/a33296561/cancel-culture-a-force-for-good-or-a-threat-to-free-speechTHE BATTLE AGAINST ‘HATE SPEECH’ ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES GIVES RISE TO A GENERATION THAT HATES SPEECH--NINA BURLEIGH, NEWSWEEK, 5/26/16Replies: @SunBakedSuburb, @Anonymous, @Rob
I have the same comment for you that I had for Johnny Walker:
Jackass,
Use a MORE tag
Like that.
Is Sundar Pichai a citizen? Regardless, Google employs a lot of aliens, does it not? That sounds a whole lot like foriegners trying to influence the election. If I took media and Democrats at their word, this would be an act of war by these aliens’ native lands. Even if we can’t hold India responsible for what its citizens do, the specific aliens themselves need to be deported if the worked on de-ranking/blacklisting political sites.
Google may not be planning to permanently de-rank anyone. They may just be planning on having repeated glitches right befòre the election, when they’d be strategically useful, and there’s no threat of a Democratic administration punishing them.
Lastly, when Sailer or unz.com get memoryholed, we can tell. We can’t tell when a new-ish thing is on the thirtieth page of Google results vs. the where it should be on the first page. That could be where they’re attacking.
This also happened to the largest immigration restrictionist discussion forum in Finland, Hommaforum. Yesterday it was excluded from Google’s search results for some time. Now it’s included again.
BTW, it’s no DailyStormer, e.g. they have a zero tolerance policy against encouraging violence and an otherwise strict moderation policy. So it’s not like they targeted some real violent extremist site.
I also read a claim that a Finnish immigration restrictionist activist group was excluded from their results, but I can’t confirm that personally.
https://twitter.com/PageSix/status/1285842166485585926https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Kris%20Jong-Un%22&src=trend_click
Kanye West Tried To Divorce Kim Kardashian And Has A Meltdown On Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qfPNhg-tZAReplies: @Lurker
Kris Jong-Un – Lol, that’s good.
https://techwiser.com/best-chromium-browsers-for-android/Replies: @Jack D
In Windows, believe it or not the new Edge (which runs on a Chromium base) is pretty good. Somehow Microsoft made a mistake and released a good product.
It was briefly broken and by the time you googled they had fixed it.
I meant to hit disagree. ZHedge has orgasmically shilled for CoronaHoax the past five months and was attacked anyway by g00gle because commenters overwhelmingly called BS on the hoax. Oh yeah baby, g00gle reads our comments, QED.Replies: @Liberty Mike
Good observation.
Thanks, its a good read.
If its Codevilla, it is a must read.
Yahoo is probably going to end comment sections. Under their stories now:
Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting. In the meantime, we welcome your feedback to help us enhance the experience.
A survey follows with questions about commenting frequency, etc.
Previous Edge was fine too. as a consumer i’m not too thrilled that edge adopted Chromium since it’s one less browser choice.
Google memoryholes iSteve, but iSteve memoryholes some of my comments. I guess the world is unfair.
“You need a knew handle something like… Trolliusmaximus would be a good fit.”
You and others here have a nasty habit of making wild generalizations, which is a barrier to cogent analysis. I will take the VV seal of disapproval (aka Corvy’s a troll) as me being on the right side of the argument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsaO3v4SvwAReplies: @Sam Malone, @anon, @anon
Some Lincoln Project guys have actual, real, genuine ties to RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSSSSSUH!
Nobody at the New Duranty Times will care, of course.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/21/lincoln-project-founders-have-ties-to-russia-tax-troubles-docs/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/breaking-us-attorney-john-durham-negotiations-people-guilty-pleas-russia-collusion-scandal/
Trump is going for the throat with the Durham investigation and if he can get the lower level schlubs to plead guilty and turn on their former superiors, that will simultaneously cut the legs out from under the left while checkmating the next level of operatives. Expect more of this.Replies: @BenKenobi, @Neoconned
I dunno who the radio host was but i randomly was listening the other day & they said indictments were coming in August.
However, Google had actually de-ranked all of our pages in early May, which caused an immediate drop of 15% or more in our regular traffic:
https://www.unz.com/announcement/record-breaking-traffic-despite-our-purge-from-google-and-facebook/
Virtually almost none of our pages ever come up in Google searches unless you include the term "unz" in the search string, which means nobody will find our content unless they're specifically looking for it. The change this morning was that all the pages disappeared with or without "unz."
For example, one of my own articles had spent the last ten years generally ranked #2 in some pretty common Google searches that return around 200 million(!) results. But since May it's been totally disappeared, though it's still ranked #1 or #2 by Bing and DuckDuckGo. Similar sorts of things for lots of other pages on this website.
Presumably, the Google people today temporarily applied the same technique to a bunch of other websites, which is the problem with having an unregulated monopoly be the gatekeeper to the Internet.Replies: @Kronos, @Neoconned
Steve i found you on a Google search but you were like 8 options down.
How hard is it to type in unz.com? I ask you this, Art, because I do see loads of people do this to get to websites they go to all the time. I know these simple URLs, unz, vdare, peakstupidity, zerohedge, instapundit, etc, by heart, like I know the phone numbers of people, family or friends, who've had the same mobile or land lines for a long time.Replies: @ScarletNumber
As much as I hate to agree with you, you are correct. Why would you need a search engine to find a website you regularly visit? Especially one with three letters. Hell this is one of the eight suggested favorites Chrome suggests, so I don’t even have to type anything to get here.
Art Deco, you are a dope.
Was he red in the face?
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/07/betting-on-trumpslide.htmlReplies: @Anonymous
Still early in the game. Lots can happen from now to November.
At the beginning of the year I was sure Trump would win, after all the economy was doing well, and its rare for incumbents to lose absent major incompetence or misfortune.
Then corona hit and the economy went to shit. I was sure Trump would lose.
Now the Democrats have lost their minds and are methodically destroying the country. It’s tempting to now assume Trump will win, but really, who knows what’s going to happen next?
I miss Hail, who always had some interesting data to share on how this wasn’t the plague.Replies: @Simon Tugmutton, @Jim Don Bob, @MEH 0910
The day after you posted your comment, Hail put up a new piece on his blog, his first since June 28th:
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/on-white-fragility-and-the-academia-to-mainstream-pipeline-an-investigation-into-white-fragility-theory-and-its-life-cycle-from-2011-to-2020/
And here I thought the coronavirus had got him. Hail still hasn’t resumed commenting here at Unz Review.
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2020/08/03/who-radicalized-robin-diangelo-a-biographical-investigation-into-the-coiner-and-promoter-of-white-fragility-theory/
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/on-white-fragility-and-the-academia-to-mainstream-pipeline-an-investigation-into-white-fragility-theory-and-its-life-cycle-from-2011-to-2020/
And here I thought the coronavirus had got him. Hail still hasn't resumed commenting here at Unz Review.Replies: @MEH 0910
And Hail posted another piece after I looked at his blog yesterday:
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2020/08/03/who-radicalized-robin-diangelo-a-biographical-investigation-into-the-coiner-and-promoter-of-white-fragility-theory/