Indymedia, Google and Terrorism

[Annie]

Considering this was just days before the G8 and London blast, one must wonder:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=16587_Google_News_Reinstates_Indymedia&only

sunday, july 10, 2005

Google News Reinstates Indymedia

Indymedia: well known as a center of unmoderated, virulent anti-Americanism, Jew-hatred, and conspiracy madness, one of the very worst places on the web. They’ve been investigated by the FBI, and European intelligence services have confiscated their servers. A cop killer was caught after he bragged about the murder on Indymedia—and there were lots of reader comments supporting him.

In 2003, after numerous complaints, the leftists who run Google News were forced to drop Indymedia from their index of “news sources.”

But now Google News must have decided the heat has died down. Because they have deliberately reinstated Indymedia as a source.

As Indy Media Watch puts it, Google Discredits Itself. It’s another disgraceful episode in a long story of ignominy.

Also of interest:

http://www.indexonline.org/en/index...in-indymedia-webserver-seized-in-police.shtml

Britain
Indymedia computer seized in pre-G8 police raid

A web server run by the Indymedia alternative news organisation has been seized by police in Bristol. An Indymedia volunter was also arrested during the raid.

A week before the 27 June raid, police demanded access to the server to gain the IP details of a message posted on the website - one method of tracking the originator of the message. The message itself had been deemed to breach the Bristol Indymedia groups editorial guidelines and had been removed from view on the site. The BBC reported that a man was later arrested in connection with alleged vandalism of cars in an environmental protest. The alternative media outlet is receiving advice from civil liberties organisations and the National Union of Journalists. The raid was linked to preparations for Group of Eight richest nations in Scotland; in October 2003, just prior to the European Social Forum, Indymedia servers in London were similarly seized by police.

 

[freeandfun1]

What's another good search engine that has NOTHING to do with Google? I know there are many out there, but so many of them use Google as their base. I want something that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with Google.

 

[Annie]

What's another good search engine that has NOTHING to do with Google? I know there are many out there, but so many of them use Google as their base. I want something that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with Google.

dogpile is supposed to be good, but I've never gotten comfortable with it. Probably a function of why I like PC's over Macs, I got used to it.

 

[onedomino]

What's another good search engine that has NOTHING to do with Google? I know there are many out there, but so many of them use Google as their base. I want something that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with Google.

MSN Search has greatly improved. AltaVista is an excellent search engine.

http://search.msn.com/

http://www.altavista.com/

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