I’m not sure whether to laugh or not, but is this just one more reason to use Bing as a search engine without a climate agenda? Maybe we should make it the official search engine of climate skeptics worldwide?
Full story here
Details on the Google Science Communication Fellows program here
The big bucks backed effort rather reminds me of this “B” scifi movie:
What next? Will we get the finger?
Just in case you don’t know where the scene is from, it is the 1978 remake of “Inavsion of the Body Snatchers”
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Google as Goebbels! My, my.
Here is the money quote,
“We don’t know everything about the climate from a scientific standpoint and there are uncertainties, but they are uncertainties over whether climate change is going to either be bad or really, really bad,” – Andrew Dessler, also a Google fellow and a climate scientist at Texas A&M University.
I skimmed the page too fast and missed this,
“Dr. Schneider was a champion and impassioned supporter of climate change education as evidenced by his role as a GREF Mentor to two of the GCEP GREF students – Dr. Paul Higgins and Dr. Michael Mastrandrea who obtained their Ph.D. degrees at Stanford University under his direction.“
I humbly suggest duckduckgo for searching. It respects your privacy and has good results, along with some of the advanced features you’d expect from the bigger players.
The Oval Umpire.
Safari offers only three options for default search engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing). You can add others, but apparently it takes some finagling.
Did someone say Yahoo’s search engine has biases as well?
/Mr Lynn
I’ll go with bing.
If google wants to add its own slant to what I get to see, I have no interest in using google. I hope google will come to appreciate how lost trust is lost for ever. Be sure they have justified their decision.
nothing google EVER gets onto any computer in my house. no search. no toolbar. no google desktop (although they DO try to automatically install with just about every application these days… even quickbooks!). Mostly because it’s a resource hog. That and they try to be all things to all people and know waaaay too much about you (me).
Nor am I a fan of Big Blue, but alas, I need Microsoft to interface with clients 99% of whom use it. Maybe I’ll try one of those search aggregators.
@ur momisugly NC: I tried an android phone, but syncing outlook with gmail so I could sync with android was a pain and resulted in multiple duplicated contacts and calendars. Went with blackberry and never looked back. Loved my old Palm Treo, and it’s unfortunate that Palm never advanced that platform. I was downloading apps before the word “app” was cool. The Pre is (was) just a toy.
@ur momisugly Mods: Sorry, WUWT, but I like getting worldwide news on my home page first thing. But you’re on my favorite bar! Wish I could find a good news aggregator.
I use the Google Advanced Search page a lot because I find many of its tailoring and filtering functions very useful
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Unfortunately, I don’t see anything remotely ressembling like that in Bing, so no Bing for me for now.
Yes, it is disappointing that Google is also peddling this snake oil, but if I were to shut out of my life every convinced believer in AGW, it would make my life a lot harder. They are, after all, pervasive, and we have to live with them. I just avoid the topic with them.
Sorry, but given a choice between Google and Microsoft, I’ll go with Google.
This is what happens when you leave a corporate-politico-wannabe type like Schmidt in charge. The evil doers are promoted, and the rich talent leaves. The same thing happened to Microsoft in the 1990s. Standby for the Google version of .NET (and boy will it suck….)
Google gives answers.
Questions drive skeptics.
Gooregle 0_O
I’ve never used Google, I’ve used Yahoo since their very first day. I do have to use some Google products at work, we have gmail for example, and on my Android phone of course, but that’s very little.
Yahoo may have some search engine biases, but at least they aren’t out there funding a group to promote “knowledge and understanding” of the Climate Change Religion. That seems like a conflict of interest to me. How could they possibly provide a bias-free search engine?
It will be interesting to see how the EU investigation turns out, especially after this.
I don’t know what the outrage is about. Any search I do with words involving climate comes up with Wattsupwiththat at the top, followed by Climate Audit. I don’t understand what the bias is that people are complaining about.
One more thing, I had no trouble adding my Yahoo mail to my Android phone.
Well I can’t do anything about my g-mail; the company sets that; but google just got bingled into the dustbin of history.
There are only really three search engines that are going to get meaningful results, Google, Yahoo and Bing (formerly MSN/Live search). If I could not use Google it would be Bing as Microsoft are the least likely to engage in political activism. The next biggest ones after that is the Chinese search engine Baidu and Ask.com.
Unfortunately nothing beats Google for sheer indexing volume, speed and search options so I will continue to use it.
Keep in mind just about every other search engine is powered by one of the top three (Google, Yahoo or Bing).
I use Google, but I never click on paid links. I’m reasonably certain that over the years of taking advantage of their search enginge, that I’ve been a net drain to their bottom line. Use their bandwidth and search engines, use the snot out of them, just don’t pay them by clicking on anything they get paid for.
eadler, what search term did you use to find WUWT at the top of the page?
I tried “climate”, “global warming”, and “climate skeptics” [which improbably had Grist at the top of the page]. WUWT was nowhere to be found. Neither was Climate Audit.
I have used Ask.com for last four years or so.
See, I told you guys weeks ago that Google was rigging their search results to blackball WUWT!!! Hows about some props?
Google can have their biased, jaundiced opinions, some of us search for the truth.
If the truth hits a google fellow or a fellow of Google or whatever, how would he know it?
They require sympathy and some sort of help to see the truth, in old age they’ll see the folly of their ways, life is an equaliser like that.
How young firebrand Socialists become Republican or Conservative in middle age…..similarly so with eco-warriors, maturity provides perspective and proper evaluation, invariably, a chance too to recant.
I thought Hansen was talking crap in the eighties, nothing has changed and google can’t change the world either, no matter how much they think they can, many people can smell BS a mile off, some see it early for others it takes a little longer but the polls on AGW and the public perception of the AGW scam is hardening, as the truth seeps out.
Anthony, I highly suggest you talk with Pat Michaels at Cato about pursuing an anti-trust suit against Google on this issue.
Props, Mike. Now use your intertubes-fu to come up with a way around it.