Note: title suffix – “autosuggest still blocked” has been removed, see update2 at bottom of story.
We’ve had the term “global warming” in the lexicon since well before the Internet became a household tool, certainly well before Google itself.
So it is with amazement that I report the rise of a new term, “Climategate” in just a little over 1 week in the Google search engine.
Here’s our old friend “global warming”:
And here is the new term that is spreading like lightning, “climategate”:
global warming – 10,100,000
climategate – 10,400,000
Note that these are web searches, not news searches, but Google suggests a few news stories first. These two searches were conducted about 1 minute apart.
Individual results and search permutations may vary, but it sure seems like “climategate” has grown virally in since the story on the CRU files broke on November 19th.
Here are some other interesting tidbits about “climategate”.
Google seems to be blocking their search box suggestions from using the word, reports on WUWT and my own observation two days ago indicate it was once there. I used by upper right Google Search Box in IE8 to find out.
For example “global war….” has lots of suggestions:
And so does “climate”:
I find it interesting that climate depot and climate audit are suggested ahead of climate progress.
But even when you spell out almost the enirety of “climategate” Google doesn’t seem to think it’s worth suggesting to you:
With “climategate” now as big as, likely even bigger than “global warming” on the web, Google might want to rethink this.
UPDATE: From comments I see that “Bing”, the new search engine from Microsoft, has no such problems, and in fact puts “climategate” right at the top after only 3 letters “c l i”:
I thought the Langjokull Glacier in Iceland was a nice touch. Bing apparently rotates backgrounds, so who knows what you’ll see.
UPDATE2: About 3 hours after this story was first posted, it appears that Google has added the word “climategate” to autosuggest.
Over two hundred responses… and no one checked the DATA!
“climategate” in quotes (forget what Google or Bing claim for results)
Bing reports 971-972 of 972 results if you actually find the last hit on the last page Bing will provide.
Google reports Results 961 – 990 on the last hit on the last page Google will provide.
Bulldust (19:43:33) :
LOL:-)
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/29/808841/-Climate-change-data-dumped(climategate-scandal-continues…)
OT: Monckton on Alex Jones Tv, 5 part interview, full hour on ClimateGate. Great stuff, naturally.
Link to episode 1:
Does Googly have a deal with the Obama Regime similar to the one Googly has with the Chinese Regime – a censorship agreement?
My Googles are fogged – what should I do!
Why go to bing when it’s owned by Steve Balmer – the guy that said “Using Linux is un-American!”
Use an unaffiliated meta search service (49,000,000) climategate listings!
http://startpage.com/
Yeah, I watched that too and just laughed at that Russian guy.
According to Professor Reiter on malaria in the “Little Ice Age” (as was posted on CA):
Perhaps someone in Russia should educate that guy eh?
We still do not know who released this hacked data, and why? I know the “why” may seem obvious. But everything (almost) happens for a reason.
Keep an objective mind and do not pass judgement until all the facts are known.
Mind control is a terrible thing, especially among the masses.
Anthony, look at the link some guy just sent me to argue that the CRU data was valid: http://www.woodfortrees.org/credits
Whoops! This data is EVERYWHERE.
So on the one hand you have alarmists calling this an “incredibly dumb nontroversy” (as one blogger has put it), but on the other it seems to really be gaining traction – even with media sources who normally would have their fingers stuck in their ears.
Maybe this really is a “Baghdad Bob” moment…
[For anybody who might not have heard of him, or who has simply forgotten, that was a nickname used in the US for Saddam Hussien’s spokesman during the Iraq War. This guy would have a press conference every day, telling how great the war was going for Iraq – sometimes even with shelling audible in the background, and with American tanks rolling through town just a few blocks away from him! Then, one day, he and the rest of the Iraqi govt suddenly stopped showing up for work, never to return. There’s still a web site in “honor” of this guy: http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/ The last quote of his on that page is “We are winning!” Sound familiar?]
Having been glued to my computer during most of my free time for the last week I’ve been quite aware of various Google machinations in regard to this issue. While there may be some problems with the Google algorithms with regard to how high search terms are placed in autosuggest (an exceedingly annoying feature for me), it does seem suspicious that “climategate” was present for a few days then suddenly disappeared. Also, the number of results on Google varies widely; at the time of this posting it is 11,400,000 but I saw numbers as low as 140,000 earlier today. Bing, OTOH, has “climategate” come up in the autosuggest every time and the number of results on Bing has been steadily increasing and stands at 50,800,000 a few seconds before I tried the same search on Google. This is certainly curious behavior.
What I find the most damning about Google is what they’ve done to the M4GW “Hide the decline” clip. Despite the large number of viewings, some 260,000 the last time I looked, it does not appear in the most viewed videos list. Not only that, but if one looks at every other parameter that the top rated videos are rated on there is no sign of “hide the decline”. In the category of numbers of comments, the top rated clip had fewer comments than the M4GW clip! Google now owns YouTube and this is blatant censorship at its worst. After seeing this I immediately ditched Google as my primary search engine and switched to Bing. I also detest M$ but as long as Bing doesn’t appear to be deliberately censoring anything that doesn’t fit the warmist agenda, I’ll continue to use it. It would be interesting to see what would happen to Googles stand on this issue if they had a sudden decrease in traffic with a corresponding increase for Bing as millions of people boycotted them. I do a few hundred search engine lookups/day and if the heaviest internet users switched en-masse we could make a difference.
Odd cycle this is – there was a day (back when the net was text) when 9 out of the top 10 Google hits for “Bulldust” pointed to pages I had coded in HTML 1.0 on Notepad(R) talking about the HHH (see above).
Back to the Monckton audio 🙂
CLIMATEGATE IS NOT IN MY GOOGLE AUTOSUGGEST LIST.
You say they have added it back in, but I don’t see it this side.
Is it because it’s localised: google.co.za
What the?
Google’s airheads are all about not “doing evil,” as if they had any conception of what the term means. Obviously auto suggesting “climategate” counts as evil in their shriveled moral compasses. Can’t do anything to aid us knuckledraggers in finding out the truth…
Hide the decline
Google : 3,780,000
Bing : 1,920,000
Yahoo : 1,920,000
It still does not work for me either (U.S.) regardless if I type in:
climateg or climate g
It must have been a temporary change, that has since been “fixed”
Larry
The data was fudged (corrected – hee hee) – and obviously so – to cover up the fact the climate had trended cooler for the last 10 years – and not so unsurprisingly left off Al Gore’s hockey stick climate horse hockey.
When a statistician encodes periodic attenuation averages with volatilities beyond orders of magnitude of 100 something is very wrong . If you look at those emails and study the code (a simple English scripting language used by non-software engineer statisticians) the ‘fudge’ is obvious to the point of ridiculous – a “C” high school algebra (oops – did I just say something Islamic) could spot the flaw.
Those guys are low iodine corn ball politicians and that’s why everything is mucking up. A few years ago the inventor of Netscape wrote an article for Wired magazine in which he describes the “crappy guy syndrome”, whereby a manager will higher someone less credentialed or less skilled than he to assure his job security – ie – a political appointment rather than a “whats best for the future of the enterprise” appointment.
Look at all that’s going on. Baxter, instead of manufacturing H1N1 vaccine in the Ukraine, is, instead, manufacturing Pneumonic Plague , bottling it and calling it vaccine. When all those Ukrainians got sick – the booga booga climate-o-fear created was supposed to sell a bunch of vaccine. It bacfired – the game was spotted – so now it’s alll hush hush and on the QT. A guy in LA a couple of weeks back, a Professor Joseph Moshe, called a talk radio show and said as much. Within ten minutes FBI/HLS SWAT was microwaving him – tasing him -gassing him (in rush hour LA traffic) and then either deported him or put him in a sanitarium (google it). I ask – how many talk show call in Wackos get that kind of attention from the FBI.
There is no coincidence – only the allusion of it. All events are staged to create markets for public financing – false flag terror for the globaloney war on terror and correlation science for the globalony warming scam are but two slices in a great big fat ripoff pie!
Hope for change – look at my thumb – gee your dumb!
THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION
We have been given a powerful tool in the form of GlimateGate.
It now has a name and has the potential to get a life of its own.
So if the mains stream media is not going to report on this then let us use the social Facebook and emails to spread the news.
Send the following two YouTube videos to two people that you know and ask them to send it onto at least 2 others.
And
If you have a Facebook page post the two links.
Will
The official victory of ClimateGate over Global Warming via Google Fight:
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=global+warming&word2=climategate
I don’t know, but I found this on the first page of my Google search, along with numerous others who are no friends of the AGW scam.
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=10451
Of Google is hiding anything, they don’t seem to be doing a great job of it, unless I’m missing something.
Yep it’s still broken here in Oz, just as we are about to have a government vote re our own ETS (Cap and Trade Scheme) this week. Makes you wonder doen’t it.
Just tried Google, typed the whole word, no autosuggest.
OK, I see now. If you don’t know to SPECIFICALLY search for the term “Climategate” they aren’t going to suggest it And, yes, that is a form of concealment.
e.g., even if I type in “Climategat,” leaving off only the final “e,” all they suggest is “Climate Guatamala” and “Climate Guatamala City.”
But, if you know to type in “Climategate,” you get “Results 1 – 10 of about 11,200,000 for climategate. (0.07 seconds) “
Here’s an analysis by some people who have spent some time at it.
http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=295215
NOTE-I tried typing “clim” and didn’t get “climategate” as they claimed was the case earlier. Maybe Google “fixed” that bug?
Yes. I agree. Google is sleazy, all right.
Steve M has won! This link is worth a post I reckon.
Climategate: University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row
Leading British scientists at the University of East Anglia, who were accused of manipulating climate change data – dubbed Climategate – have agreed to publish their figures in full.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6678469/Climategate-University-of-East-Anglia-U-turn-in-climate-change-row.html
I wonder what happens if I do a search for “Googlegate?”
Hmmmm
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/02/paper_blasts_go.php
http://precursorblog.com/node/557
Not exactly the straightest of shooters, it would seem.
Google News yields “Results 1 – 10 of about 751 for climategate. (0.09 seconds)”
http://news.google.com/news?q=climategate&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn
Some pretty good stuff there, too.