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.
Of course the reason us skeptics want this delayed (ETS in Australia) is because we are convinced that very shortly the climagate scam will bring the whole thing down probably in weeks not months so that’s then reality will set in we hope.
Oh well if google wants to rapidly lose 50-60% users (check USA, Australia Polls re Gloabla warming) i would have no hesitation in moving over to bing or whatever beware google! Unfortunately for Google, on the net this would happen very quickly!
I think we have to stop considering “google” as a legitimate search engine.
Go here and complain.
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/request.py?contact_type=survey
I filled in all the questions as very dissatisfied then in the comments box regarding what i was looking for: ” CLIMATEGATE!” Why re you censoring it?
OFF TOPIC but this is in the Telegraph now,the scam is now front page news at last
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6678469/Climategate-University-of-East-Anglia-U-turn-in-climate-change-row.html
Ryan (13:34:42) :
You know what?
I think I will switch to Bing.
I find that Bing Video has better search than Google Video.
And further still things disappear from Google search results because you are being served different results from different server and depending on updates IMHO.
Google is a charter member of the Green Club.
Just like GE, you may notice not much on Climategate on the NBC Green is Universal family of stations including CNBC where this information really matters to Investors. Lets hope the Comcast deal gets done and they shutdown MSNBC and free up commentators on CNBC to actually talk about world events.
Site Search of CNBC for Climategate – Responses = 0
Here are the results on Bing, the Microsoft Search Engine using Firefox Browser.
Global Warming 15,300,000 results
Climategate 50,800,000 results
Interesting that the second suggestion item on Bing for “global warming” was “global warming hoax.”
Bing suggested Climategate straight up.
If Bing returns millions more hits on “climategate” than Google, isn’t it doing a more thorough search?
I see that Gavin over at RC is spinning like crazy.
If you have any wet clothes; just toss them on him and they will be dry in no time…………
Serenity now………..
It’s not often I disagree with a posting on here, but it’s most probably a separate process that generates the ‘suggest’ autocomplete, and it probably has to do so much cross – indexing to produce the database for it, that may be it jus thasn’t filtered through whatever servers / processes Google uses to make it after only 1 week! I doubt it is manually edited.
Quite often a new website, for instance, may take a few weeks to ripple into the more results searches on Google, so we know this is normal behaviour really. All those ‘Google Bots’ take time to do their chores you know!
Chris (13:32:00) :
“It seems the MSM is cracking. The Times has just weighed in with a scorching dismissal of the abuse of process:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936289.ece”
They were bound to crack especially when Paul Hudson became most viewed at one time on the BBC. Then there was the most viewed Delingpole on the Telegraph and that chap on the Guardian most viewed all in the last week.
It’s breaking, it may finally be breaking.
In the Telegraph it’s moved from the blogs to the comment page (and not just Booker’s glorious piece as he’s been the one shining regular sceptic they allowed to publish) and was editor’s choice yesterday. Now a seriously *fair* analysis piece has appeared in the Times (with excellent detail on the ‘lost’ data), which only a few days ago was having Abramovich parrotting the BBC’s “nothing to see here, move along” line and positively mocking Lord Lawson for thinking there was anything in it.
It’s breaking. I think it may finally be breaking…
Yes Smokey.
Chris (13:32:00) :
It seems the MSM is cracking. The Times has just weighed in with a scorching dismissal of the abuse of process:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936289.ece
By a writer whimsically named “Jonathan Leake.” But at least the editors at the grand old Times recognize the global outrage Climategate engenders. Now, if they want to see their circulation return to the glory days – print the story on the front page!
A rather unscientific quick and dirty survey of of web filtering Google versus Bing, taken at about 3:30 PM Mountain Standard Time.
Climategate Google 10.4 Million
Bing 50.8 Million
Sex in Hollywood
Google 80 million
Bing
I’ve long suspected that Google monkeys with their suggestions for political and business reasons. I remember in the middle of a presidential election the top completion for “George Bush” lead to the “George Bush or Chimp” web site. Very funny. Very scary. Very evil (to any Googler’s reading this: their motto is “don’t be evil” except when it comes to collaborating to supress political dissent in China, etc…).
Further and further to my last email please remember that Google can sometimes be sensetive to being spammed. When Michael Jackson died its servers thought they were under attack for a Denial of Service. You ended up with a page where you had to type in a CAPTCHA (type words in a box from an image showing text)
A rather unscientific quick and dirty survey of of web filtering Google versus Bing, taken at about 3:30 PM Mountain Standard Time.
Climategate Google 10.4 Million
Bing 50.8 Million
Sex in Hollywood
Google 80 million
Bing 30 million
Explicit Sex Tapes
Google 40 million
Bing 3 million
Corruption on Wall Street
Google 5 million
Bing 2.4 million
Dirty Politics
It’s got a facebook group for those that are interested. Search for Climate-Gate.
“Climategate” with quotation marks: 745,000 hits
Climategate without quotation marks: 10,700,000 hits
A rather unscientific quick and dirty survey of of web filtering Google versus Bing, taken at about 3:30 PM Mountain Standard Time. ClimateGate versus 4 other randomly chosen topics.
Climategate
Google 10.4 Million
Bing 50.8 Million
Sex in Hollywood
Google 80 million
Bing 30 million
Explicit Sex Tapes
Google 40 million
Bing 3 million
Corruption on Wall Street
Google 5 million
Bing 2.4 million
Dirty Politics
Google 23 million
Bing 20 million
This brief dataset suggests a bias
OT: I was having a spirited debate over at ClimateProgress regarding Dr. Curry’s open letter wherein I being very careful to stay on the point of the article and play nice in the sandbox. After being challenged by dhogaza (who was surprisingly civil in our debate although not staying on topic) and ad-hom attacked by Ian Forrester, I was effectively countering their rebuttals and mounting a good case – at which point I got banned. So, I guess this is what they mean by the “debate is over.” Much like pulling the plug on the television means the show is over despite there is still 28 minutes to go?
Google.ch: “climagate”
… 11’000’000 hits!
http://www.google.ch/search?q=climategate&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a
Google.ch: “climategate”
… 11′000′000 hits!
http://www.google.ch/search?q=climategate&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a