The Politics of Google

There's an interesting piece over at Moore's Lore this morning entitled Google Scandals.

The first part refers to some technical screw ups on Google's part vis-a-vis their new Blogger product. It's the other "scandal" that's interesting: it discusses how Google's decision to cut blogs out of their news section (or more accurately, cut sites that use blogging software) has skewed the result of a news search ideologically.

The idea that technical implementations can mangle (ideally) a "value judgement free" search engine is fascinating. It should remind us all to be careful not only of what we look for, but how we look for it.

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