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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Also web traffic numbers would have no effect on Google Results. There may be more people visiting WUWT but there are likely more websites with a high page rank linking to RealClimate such as newspapers, magazines, journals, science and news sites. Google has no way to know you are reading WUWT if you load it off a bookmark, type the URL in or have it set as your homepage.
Given the choice between A and B search engine, I choose C:
http://scroogle.org/
When I was doing research on infringement against one of my patents, I discovered that using all available search engines gave far better results than just relying upon Google.
I still tend to use Google first, but use Yahoo increasingly. Bing ain’t bad, but I don’t like their news coverage as much. I also miss Altavista! Those were the days….
Google and Apple together can have a powerful effect.
I set up this page to try and get some metrics on the Flash issue.
http://trilogymedia.com.au/chrome_test/
But whats next? Chrome not even showing sceptics websites?
For once I can vote with my feet! Google just dumped and trying out Bing. I would hope many others do the same.
If you have fire bug, by fire fox you can right click on the header at the top of page, scroll down to Inspect element. What you will find from a little introspection when last updated to the banner photo, you included the words across the top into the JPG and lost these key words. Google is setting title header constraints to rank web site is correct in not seeing any of the old meta words in text format across the top of page, page header or first article title.
Google guidelines on increasing traffic with search terms and meta data;
http://t.co/cV7IJOd
http://t.co/ceW7kkq
IF you would add the search words you would like to be ranked by as text in the header, or as a fixed title in the first article. you will find your results in the top 2 or 3 again. April is doing a search term relevance sort for you, will post the top 25 words volume generated from all three search engines for your use to fix your problem as soon as the data is compiled.
Then you can add the best sorted search term meta data to fix your problem. It is not “Just a Google political ploy” or an intentional ignoring of your volume, you just don’t have any meta data search able in the format they are looking for.
It is simply Google is using the header TEXT and first couple of line to sort search result priority. Just fix your header text with the keywords of your choice, even as black text on black background so is invisible would work to fix your problem.
Richard Holle *just want the truth not an empty fight*
Voting with my feet. I am stopped using Chrome as my default browser, and deleted google from IE9 and selected Bing as search engine.
Might I suggest Ixquick for these very good reasons.
“On June 27, 2006, Ixquick.com became the first search engine to delete private details of its users.[6] IP addresses and other personal information are deleted within 48 hours of a search.[7] Ixquick also does not share its users’ personal information with other search engines or with the provider of its sponsored results.[8][9]
Ixquick was awarded the first European Privacy Seal (EuroPriSe) for its privacy practices on July 14, 2008. This European Union-sponsored initiative guarantees compliance with EU laws and regulations on data security and privacy, through a series of design and technical audits.[10]
As of January 28, 2009, Ixquick no longer records users’ IP addresses at all.[11][12]
From Wikipedia.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Could I suggest instead of just changing your search engine, removing google from your browsers and closing gmail accounts, you actually write to google and tell them why you have taken this action?
I will be writing to Google to tell them why I am switching my search engine.
Also, let’s try to get this story into the media.
Google censorship must be stopped before it gets any further out of hand
/Mango
I don’t deny climate change, I know climate changes
So Al Gore is the Hitler of the 21st Century and Google the Joseph Goebbels.
Google made the mistake of becoming a driver of political issues. Stick to business and technology and stop trying to manipulate the world and our minds. Because of this AGW link and coming after us skeptics (hunting us down really!) with a preconceived agenda and mind-set… for my part, I am dumping all “google” including search, igoogle and google analytics and google maps & earth. Too bad, the technology was quite good and now they’ve spoilt it. Not coming back until they listen to us too, bye-bye google.
I have just changed my search engine to “Bing”.
Bastidges!!!!
JQ.
Google honed their craft in China.
Wasn’t there something about “Big Money” vested interests interfering in the science?
You could always type in Wattsup.
Or is that too simple.
Bing has the exact same type of ads as Google ads. Why do you think Microsoft is trying desperately (and pitifully) to get into the search engine game? Google makes their money off those ads, not off people using the search engine. The ads are placed in the page with the search results in such a way that Google know will interest people. The more competitive the search term, the high it costs the advertiser per click to be at the top. Microsoft wants that cash cow, and so they are trying their best to emulate that model. The first step is to get people to using their search engine. If you don’t click on the ads, Google and Bing make less money.
I was pointing out the irony of protesting against Google while at the same time using Google to help fund this site and thus help Google do what you are protesting. Why not use the non-obtrusive Bing ads instead?
I’m not anti-Microsoft. But when I use a search engine, I want to find things. That is why I will still use Google or Yahoo.
Wade, “I was pointing out the irony of protesting against Google while at the same time using Google to help fund this site and thus help Google do what you are protesting. Why not use the non-obtrusive Bing ads instead?”
That makes more sense but the way you phrased it was as if Google’s ads were in some way obtrusive. I am also well aware of Bing Ads.
As for searching I still think Bing is better than Yahoo but nothing comes close to Google.
I don’t care for Google or Microsoft. So I’ve been using http://startpage.com/ (also known as http://ixquick.com/) — which admittedly does include Bing results — and http://duckduckgo.com/.
http://refdesk.com/ is worth a try for a homepage if you don’t want to use Google or WUWT. iGoogle.com let’s you completely customize your homepage and has no ads, just a G search field.
Lawrence Solomon: Better off with Bing
Googlegate: The search engine may be standing up to Chinese censors. What about Google’s own censors?
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/01/16/lawrence-solomon-better-off-with-bing.aspx
“enough” said: Gore was a “smuck”.
We know what “enough” means. When referring to Gore, let’s get it right.
The word is “schmuck”.
I just starting using this search engine, dedicated to scientific information ONLY! :
http://www.scirus.com/
I’ve been using Google Scholar for a few years & have done very well with it, but I never forgave Google for their tampering search results when the Climategate story broke….Anthony’s post was quite chilling, reeking of Orwell’s “1984”:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/02/google-trends-on-climategate-show-public-interest-increasing-but-troubling-questions-loom/
Therefore, please put me in the “other than Google” search category. I’m still sniffing out Bing, and don’t consider Microsoft much of an improvement over Google.
I want to avoid giving Google even a single additional hit. Is there a search engine that does not use Google? Bing uses Google, right? Dogpile states that they use Google. Does Yahoo use Google? (Sounds dumb, I know, but you never know.)
This may have been said, bu
t ixquick is the most secure search engine. Ixquick.com
Theo, Bing powers itself and will completely provide results for Yahoo,
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/08/yahoo-transition-to-bing-finalized-in-us-canada.ars
Dogpile is a metasearch engine and gets results from Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.
The only real competitor to Google is Bing but it unfortunately lacks many search features that makes Google so versatile. Every time a new search engine comes out, I try it and they just don’t compare to Google. Bing is getting better though.