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.
Criminals – the lot of them.
They want control over you and your money.
They will not stop their agenda and will try
to distract you from the the facts by marching
on to the tunes of: “Stolen emails”, “Hacked server”, and “Out of context”.
Folks… either 2 plus 2 equals 4 or it doesn’t.
To state otherwise – is pure stupidity.
These people’s actions – to any reasonable man (who knows basic math) – are corrupt and malicious of intent.
Each and every conspirator should pay.
Google has shown utter contempt for it’s users through censorship. Bing seems to have better results. Is there any search engine that we can use that does not censor the news.? Cuil works but is not good enough at aggregating news.
So where can we get uncensored news aggregated?
I have solved the auto suggest question:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/article5816774.ece
Actually if you add them together (equal 10th place that is) that places google in equal 5th spot. No wonder ClimateGate doesn’t auto-suggest.
I see there is a website now on the domain name climategate.com that went up last week, When you search in Bing for climategate the site shows up in the results, but not in Google. If you key in climategate.com it will show up, but not if you just key in the keyword. And it’s a real site. Shouldn’t that site come up? Or will it take a little time to move up the index? I thought having the actual domain name of the search term — given it’s a real site — would help.
Interesting thread, btw.
This is sick.
i own climategatefacts.com and i was number 1 for almost 1 week. and now i cant even come up for the term “climategatefacts” “climategate facts” .
i have run seo test on the html and it comes out perfect.
i have putt online 100s of websites with key domain names, and this is very strange.
here is a link to the site.
http://climategatefacts.com/
if anyone can tell me what is going on …it wold be very helpful
email me
admin@climategatefacts.com
As of Wed. Dec. 9 Google (Australia) has NOT added the word “climategate” to autosuggest. Our new Liberal leader should look into this.
On Bing “climategate” returned 50,500,000 hits today Tuesday Dec 8 6:53 pm Mountain time for me.
If you are using IE8, go to Tools > Internet Options > Search, click on Bing and set it to default. You may also want to remove Google.
I am done with google as a search engine, and I will be migrating my email as soon as possible away from GMail.
Google’s new motto: “Don’t not be evil”.
google jumped the gun and rested it’s ladder on a topic that is just not true. If you really look into it, the contrary evidence is overwhelming. It was a mistake and they won’t admit it. They have too much invested. They should be ashamed. Pick a real topic to get behind like world hunger or something useful.
Fixed!
Google.com and Google.co.uk are suddenly now autosuggesting for “climategate” and “harry_read_me”.
Just checked number of hits on ‘climategate’ on both Google and Startpage, the result is very interesting. Startpages’ results have predictably increased from around 52 million hits on the 6th of December to 67 million hits today on the 15th of December. No surprise there. However, on the 6th of December, Google returned around 31 million hits but has now decreased to 19 million. A rather peculiar algorithm they are using there. Political tampering? I expect so. I have saved dated screenshots of this search over the past 10 days that I will pass along to Lord Monckton when he has finished his work in Copenhagen.
Google isn’t biased, they even made a website to show how unbiased they are on the climate change topic
http://www.google.com/landing/cop15/
I only got 5,420,000 million Google hits for climategate on 26 Dec.
Here it is the end of 2010.
Funny thing happened when I was reviewing the Top Ten WUWT year end review. I went to the Climategate link, then thought I’d do a Google and Bing search on the word Climategate (www.google.ca). On the google search only one hit appears in the first five search pages that matches a wattsupwiththat.com link (it’s a Lord Monckton hit), NO “wattsupwiththat.com/climategate/” HITS.
http://www.bing.com has the “wattsupwiththat.com/climategate/” link as the third choice on the first page of a climategate search. Me thinks we are still being web censored by Google.
Interesting, but there are more hits on Google than Bing: 956,000 to 595,000.
Even more interesting is the fact that in the previous comment by Chris (Dec. 26, 2009) there were 5,420,000 hits on Google for “climategate.” A year later we’re less than a fifth of that.