google bans a military news site ?

[signatory]

Weird, any one know the reason behind this move?

http://www.spacewar.com/ is a site that list official news from the wires all military related, as of today google do not keep it in their search engine.

"As of February 23, 2006 this site has been banned by Google Inc"

About ads maybe ? but the sister sites such as http://www.terradaily.com/ (for wire news about the earth) is still listed...

[eucalyptus]

Search google groups for spacewar.com

[hell]

Wouldn't surprise me; being listed in Google is like being a member of this board, its not a right, its up to the person(s) running the show. I've had a few of our customers that called me griping because their website wasn't listed in Google, one guy had a very high rank, and was then taken completely out of Google after he called them up, threatening them. He acted like he had some constitutional right to be in there...

[Jani.R]

They might have cheated on the rankings and got removed for that reason.

[signatory]

Wouldn't surprise me; being listed in Google is like being a member of this board, its not a right, its up to the person(s) running the show. I've had a few of our customers that called me griping because their website wasn't listed in Google, one guy had a very high rank, and was then taken completely out of Google after he called them up, threatening them. He acted like he had some constitutional right to be in there...


lol yep it's all business in the end and the fact that spacewar.com doesn't say why they got pulled only indicates it's a fuggup on their own part.

[Ghostwolf]

Since Google is in cooperation with the Chinese government to restrict the internet freedom even further in China, could they have ban this site as well?

http://www.softwar.net/

This site features reports and information regarding growing China's militarism ambition though.

[Bullet Donor]

They already did it to 0grish. It all ties into Bush's admin.

[hell]

They already did it to 0grish. It all ties into Bush's admin.

rofl

I can see blaming some stuff on his administration, but not that. If Bush was behind some grand scheme to censor people by leaving them out of Google results, you think you would still be able to get those results of password-protected areas in **** sites with Google? That's why a bunch of **** site operators are sueing Google, their crawler has managed to give people access to pages that normally require people to pay in order to get a username/password.

[percell_086]

Btw google is anti-bush.

[Cabbage]

After China, it seems Google has been hit by the censor bug. Though Google is a load of crap anyway....don't know why everyone raves about it. It's a search engine...and a pretty bad one at that. Big deal.

[mudbunny]

"I can see blaming some stuff on his administration, but not that. If Bush was behind some grand scheme to censor people by leaving them out of Google results, you think you would still be able to get those results of password-protected areas in **** sites with Google? "

Well, they're not trying to keep anyone OUT of a site, this administration is trying to get access to Google's databases because they (big brother) wanna know WHERE you are going and since Google is the biggest search engine, that's a good place to start. The latest updates are that Google is still resisting and will be taking it to the courts to keep the a-holes from obtaining search records.

[signatory]

update....people power to the rescue

Google Re Indexes SpaceWar.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - FEB 25, 2006
Google Inc. has responded to requests
to re-index our associated Internet site - SpaceWar.com - a daily news wire covering military space issues.
Many thanks to all our readers who helped by sending emails and picking up the phone.

We look forward to a continuing and profitable partnership with Google to provide readers with highly contextual ads driven by our growing database of news and information.

Both are outstanding products and we readily recommend that companies buy keywords on our websites via the Google Ad Words system.

http://www.spacewar.com/Google_Bans_Australian_Based_Military_Space_News_Website.html