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.
Must hear, Moncton again, this time about Climategate:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/lord-monckton-end-the-un.html
^ I might also add the the SEO of Google has been attending bliderberg meetings since 2007.
Autosuggest works for me again. Earlier today it did not work.
It does sound like 50M odd pages is unlikely. Hell, even 10M pages sounds unlikely.
It is amazing how many people are digging into this documentation. http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/11/28/the-conspiracy-of-the-centuries-reader-post/ Patvann has dug into the emails and sees the ties to AGENDA 21 and SHELL INTERNATIONAL. This is getting ugly (and beautiful all at the same time).
Jim Treacher (18:08:53) :
Too bad they fixed Googlebombing. It would be fun to link Wikipedia’s Global Warming page to the searchwords “miserable failure.”
Actually a good Google washing might still be doable. although harder than in the past. Matt Cutts and his crew at Google have tighten up a lot of the mack truck sized holes in way pages get ranked.
In a Google wash the goal is force a competing page out of the serps by rearranging the order the results get presented in. It is done in a similar way to a Google bomb only instead of using the keywords in links from a number of other pages on the web. You duplicate the content that Google sees on a target page produce links to the duplicate page and let Google see the multiple pages. Done, with the correct links to the duplicated page Google has been known to toss both it and the original page into the bit bucket.
Google’s Blogger has had my site http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/ shut down for three days now due to it having been flagged as a “machine generated spam site”.
A previous site I ran was once flagged as such and Blogger simply placed a CAPTCHA barrier to new posts which it removed within hours.
I also have personal experience with having google search result referrals fall by 90% on a single day and then staying permanently at that level, while another site I have that contains less content and draws less traffic continues with normal referrals (the only difference being the political nature of the content).
Never ascribe malice when machines could just be drunk on Saturday night
climategate still suppressed from autosuggest in Canada…
Looks like someone decided that alleged human being Nick Griffin should be the spokesperson for anyone questioning the data. I guess that is one way to pretend you are giving both sides a chance to speak without risking any serious debate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/29/nick-griffin-bnp-copenhagen-summit
Still not on google.co.uk – but I think it is coincidence it kicked in on google.com now, probably a routines weekly update to the engine ;-|
Hmmmm. The Telegraph has another new article:http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100018243/the-bbc-and-climategate-was-a-reporter-put-under-pressure-to-ignore-the-story/
“The BBC and Climategate: was a reporter put under pressure to ignore the story?” Makes me wonder if the Print version of The Sunday Telegraph will have quite a big spread in a few hours. We’ll see.
The above was actually cited from a new Mail Article published late last night http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231763/BBC-weatherman-ignored-leaked-climate-row-emails.html
“The BBC has become tangled in the row over the alleged manipulation of scientific data on global warming.
One of its reporters has revealed he was sent some of the leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia more than a month ago – but did nothing about them”
Hey! It’s back. Top of the list. Well done Anthony.
Well said.
Regarding Update 2 about the auto-suggest being “fixed” to include “climategate”.
Well it’s still broke in Australia.
this whole google thing is silly. If they are blocking results there is a story, if people think they are trying suppress information by taking an autocomplete word out, no story. The world doesn’t get its info from chance encounters on google autocomplete web edition.
The count thing is silly too. That is not a count of web pages that mention the search word, and ‘global warming’ would be two words in any case.
I think this shows the leak information is pretty much fully digested at least — everyone is still is ‘scour’ mode and having a hard time dialing it back down : ).
Vern:
“Kathyryn….The internet is all that stands between us and totalitarianism.
Bingo… you have exactly defined where we are at. I have no idea what country you are located in but it doesn’t mater, your statement is true no matter where you are.”
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My greatest fear is that we need to add “… at present” to that statement. When are we going to need to find another route?
Google’s secret algorithm has been leaked!
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; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for search terms!!
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if searchterm=’climategate’ display=false
Richard McGough,
Thank you for pointing to the information about Google’s censorship policy. I was not aware of that.
I think Bulldust is going into hiding >.>
Actually the funny thing is, it is a nickname from the Hash House Harriers. A few hundred people know me in real life by that name rather than my mundane (birth certificate) name.
Bulldust is the guy in this pic:
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/birdman/bh3.html
Yes, we had just jogged through a blizzard… I am strangely immune to cold weather – should put me in good stead when the next ice age rolls in >.>
The picture is suitably blurry so that I may continue to be hidden from the warmistas.
Its now shown at ‘clim’ although still not appearing on google.com.au !
The hacked emails of climategate are not necessary to show that global warming has stopped and human caused global warming never was.
The Argo float data shows that global warming stopped abruptly in about 2004 (graph on pp4 of http://www.oceanobs09.net/plenary/files/Wijffels_HeatContentTemperature_2Aa_vfinal.pdf )
The research presented in the October 14 pdf at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?tid=145&linkbox=true provides a model that accurately calculates all average global temperatures since 1895 with no consideration whatsoever of changes to the level of CO2 or any other ghg. All unknowns in the model can be determined just using data prior to about 1975. The model then accurately predicts average global temperatures since then.
Gesh, quit using IE8 and get a real browser that’s your problem :Þ
I’ve been watching this Google issue for awhile and provided my thoughts in an earlier WUWT post. Google was playing games with the issue at first, but has begun to allow the natural sequence of events to occur…
My hope is that this is a beta example of how the whole Climategate scenario will play out – at first the MSM and AGW comrades in arms will play every outer barrier “card” available to them, but eventually the barrier will begin to fall and come under siege.
Contrary to how the left (sorry AJ) would perceive the development of this story, the worldwide population that has been beaten over the head with this “green” movement and AGW is sick and tired of the “holier than thou” attitude put forth by such advocates.
People have had enough and this is Global Warming’s Y2K moment – the party is over.
Google at 10,700,000 search hits now, but for some reason I had to type out the entire word “climate gate”. However when I typed climate it’s second suggestion was this current blog, which I think is awsome. Keep up the good things you guys are doing, ie telling the truth and reporting without bias.
I like Bing, Google always gives me crap now since their database is so large. Bing is actually finding what I actually need this is yet another example of it.
There is now one Climategate web site up and running. I did a search in Bing, and one of the entries was http://www.climate-gate.org/
Appears to be a search engine of the “released” files, and other related videos. Sites with the title “climategate” (.com and .org) appear to be advertising sites that hope to sell their domain names.