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.
Richard McGough (12:12:03)
Thanks. It does sound fishy.
cba (04:23:08) :Thanks a lot for the advice! Yes, I think it is smart to read a little about critical remarks of the papers first too. Seems to me that this is typically the kind of physics which is somehow easy to absorb for me, but then there is always the danger that it may be too easy reading if you know what I mean, implying that in reality things are not that elegant.
Cheers,
Invariant
Results 1 – 100 of about 118,000,000 for Climategate.
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The problem is that MSM is still completely ignoring this MAJOR event.
” Peter (12:53:11) :
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The problem is that MSM is still completely ignoring this MAJOR event.”
Apparently in Europe, as well, according to some bloggers from there whom I’ve asked what their outlets are disseminating.
Climategate still fails to auto fill in http://Yahoo.com
Yet another reason to change my home page to http://bing.com
I am sick of the Yahoo editorializing their content. They will run a headline if a polarbear farts on a melting ice pack, but refuse to run any Climategate headlines.
I am done with Yahoo.
A few logos I designed for Climategate inspired by Greenpeace and WWF.
Free to use, spread around or just good for a laugh:
http://www.pjtv.com/content-images/User/2777b7715df1.jpeg
http://www.pjtv.com/content-images/User/140c2f7aef1e.gif
Yeah bings seems better btw, will be interesting to see if Google follows suit as this unfolds, I am not holding my breathe though…. ; )
For me in Australia, climategate is not in google autocomplete, it instead suggestes climate guatamala, which has 4,140,000 results compared to climategate’s 13,100,000. That’s just not right. I also wonder why it isn’t a trending topic on Twitter…
I’ve been watching the Twitter topics, and climategate hasn’t even cropped up. Some football player is way up there, as is a topic called #isitme. I did a Twitter search on “#isitme” and within 30 seconds of getting the results there was a message saying that 30 more Tweets on that subject had been posted. I did a Twitter search on “climategate” and within three minutes only six more Tweets were posted.
So much for Twitter being the go-to place for the latest breaking news.
sHx (12:02:08) :
Please read the rest of this thread, especially:
Quotes around a single word (especially a compound word) impact the search numbers:
“climategate” -> 874,000
climategate -> 13,400,000
And also read my repeated desk thumping about those numbers grossly inflated. Don’t believe me? Give me the URL for the 1,234,567th match. Can’t be done.
Fie!
JT (14:14:11) :
No you aren’t. Yahoo and Bing are working together. See http://www.pcworld.com/article/169261/what_the_microsoftyahoobing_deal_means_for_you.html
Google is now blocking certain article by the Telegraph:
Climategate: Googlegate? – Telegraph.co.uk – 3 related articles »
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018263/climategate-googlegate/
mkurbo (18:31:30) :
Pamela Geller has been having exactly the same kind of trouble with
google for a very long time now.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/11/sandboxed-black.html
Yes, James Delingpole, it’s a pattern of abuse and/or incompetence, and because of those selectively attacked by them, it does indeed appear to be malicious
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/11/global-warming-partisan-divide.html#comments
I posted a comment about ABC’s non-coverage at this link. It survived less than 10 seconds.
if you go to nocapandtrade.com there is a list of companies to boycott.
Google is on the list.
It is a list of multinationals who intend to make money at the expense of their nation’s sovereignty.
Kathryn U (19:01:18) :
There are quite a few posts calling them on their deceit. Your comment is probably there, just on page 2 or 3.
Heck, if they delete all the negative comments, they won’t have many left.
Some folks really believe they’re entitled to have the taxes of the citizens of other countries shoveled their way: click
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018263/climategate-googlegate/
Now I am unable to login or register here. Anyone else??
OK now this is getting a bit spooky… do a Google of Bulldust and Climategate, and this thing seems to be getting out of control 😀 What am I? The chick chick boom girl (ummm boy) of climate change now?
I think I will have to wear my Bulldust shirt on casual dress Friday…
Still no auto-suggest for climategate, climategat, etc. here in Indonesia google.co.id (13,4 million hits though if you insist on searching for the “non-existing” word).
It suggests Climate Guatemala instead, with 4,1 million hits.
Here’s my quote for you:
“The fact is we can’t account for the lack of Google functionality at the moment and it’s a travesty that we can’t.”
–Ahrvid Engholm
Google are supporters of this scam, check out this link http://hopenhagen.org/friends , could well explain why no auto-suggest.
Boycott Google and every other ‘friend’ on the list.
Bing is the way to go!
Monday noon… google search “climategate” 12,5000,000
“global warming” 10,600,0000
The objective of all models is to predict.
As shown at slides 7, 8, and 9 at http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/co2_report_july_09.pdf the 20 or so GCMs that the IPCC uses fail miserably to predict.
The model (with eye-opening graph) presented in the October 14 pdf at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?tid=145&linkbox=true accurately predicts average global temperatures since 1895.
This is stupid, I don’t think the people the who did this should even have jobs. And how they got away with it just floors me :/