A week or so ago I found out about Google’s +1 program, which allows anybody to uprate websites that participate, so that users can boost that site’s search rankings.
As has been found recently, Google has staff of people who actively downrate websites based on a number of factors, one of which is according to reports, to downgrade sites that don’t agree with the “consensus” about AGW, or which allow for a diversity of views on the topic.
Because of this, WUWT’s google search rankings have become so repressed that you simply can’t find us when searching on terms like “global warming” or “climate change”. See below how search traffic has dropped as Google made changes:
I am hoping that with active reader involvement in the +1 program, we can reverse this trend.
All you have to do is press the “+1” button at the bottom of any article you like (its down there with all the other ‘share’ buttons like twitter and facebook, etc.). Thanks for helping!
UDAPTE: 11/07/2011 345PM PST Some commenters suggest we aren’t being properly skeptical and have no basis for our concern. We do have a reference, this internal Google document:
http://www.chaddo.com/GoogleRatingGuidelines.pdf
and this analysis:
-Anthony
We switched to Bing a while back. We are happy so far.
I would gladly click on the +1 button – but I can’t find one anywhere!
I don’t search through Google as I get better results through Yahoo.
do I have to join Google in some way?
Pat
It looks like Google is also killing the Japanese satellite finding, showing that industrialized nations are among the lowest emitters of CO2. Definitely not something the IPCC, WWF, and REDD want released to the public.
New Satellite Data Contradicts Carbon Dioxide Climate Theory
http://johnosullivan.livejournal.com/41060.html
Envirocensors Hide Explosive Japanese Satellite Data
http://rogueoperator.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/envirocensors-hide-explosive-japanese-satellite-data/
http://climaterealists.com/?id=8588
How right he was! It appears a self-serving and influential clique of zealots, fearful that the story may go viral, is desperate to kill it. This morning my Suite101 article had already gotten over 400,000 crosslinks a mere two days after publication. This evening a Google search shows that number cut to 297,000; so much for free speech and easy access to information on the Internet.
Maybe the “poor rating” is from the more astute Internet users’ blocking of analytics, etc..
http://climaterealists.com/?id=8588
Posted by Joe Olson (forum) on Nov 2nd 2011, 11:41 AM EDT
In May of 2010 America’s fearless leader held a two hour emergency meeting with the CEO of Google…topic controlling the blogosphere. Turns out the the SERFS of the world were getting information that was “beyond their need to know” and access must be restricted. Then Barry stepped into the Rose Garden and the teleprompter said….
“Too much information is DANGEROUS for our democracy”….[google this phrase]
That night +18,000 conservative websites were shut down, but they also managed to find and close 100 Jihadists sites with detailed instructions on how to construct dangerous bombs with common household chemicals….therefore all this was ‘national security’.
Here in Taiwan searching “Climate change” with (English not Chinese!) Google, I got NO results for “wattsupwiththat”in the Find box. And then the search stops! Google finally tells me:
“In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 955 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.”
Perhaps you are in the omitted results, but I wouldn’t count on it, and I have no desire to try again. What struck me though is that most of the results have the word “climate change” in the page title. Besides strong Google BIAS, you might want to change some of your page titles and put that term in! Google in my experience goes a lot by page titles.
Also I noticed that Asians–not just through Google–get thrown off by biased results, as Asians are better “followers” and it’s where the money is, and the NWO and their several hobby horses are quite strongly represented in the local media. Like the “China Post” English newspaper here is fanatically “Warmista” as well as promoting Vaccinations (drug industry) to the hilt, etc. etc.
I did another search with the suggested search “climate change skeptics” and Climate Deopt ranked page 4, RealClimate ranked page 5, then Csicops.org (Randi’s spiritual skeptic site) ranked page 8, before Prisonplanet page 11, foxnews page 11, infowars page 15, Hufpost 18, dailykos 22, OH finally…page 28.. (pant)
O…M…G – Video explodes skeptical kids in bloodbath | Watts Up …
wattsupwiththat.com/…/o-m-g-video-explodes-skeptical-kids-in-bloo…Cached – Similar
You +1’d this publicly. Undo
Sep 30, 2010 – I think it time for all CAGW sceptics to come out of the closet and tell the …. I point out that climate has been changing for 4 billion years and …
Well, Anthony, it seems you need to go a bit on the attack in naming your pages differently, at least, and give Google a piece of your mind. I guess if we look for scientific terms re: climate and warming you may come up sooner, but as far as reasing the masses with “truth” or climate reality, you need to get on the ball. If THAT is what you want to do!
The system doesn’t play fair. All the last search results were peppered with fraudulent China Post results, for example, whereas your honest science was nowhere to be found until page 28! It’s like this, you can just be an honest scientist and forget the propaganda? You’ll be like a pretty girl winking in the dark! Or you can start to attack to get your ratings up and reach the bamboozled world masses with REAL science. As it stands now, your enemies control the playing field. But hey! Truth never makes it far in this wicked world. Look at the most loving man that ever lived! He is still cursed, persecuted, denounced, mocked, derided and debunked after 2000 years….. just for dying for our salvation!
So, ANY truth is treated like that. Still you can wage a better campaign than you are, obviously.
Good luck?
Nah! God bless!
Google is taking its directions from the top
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.
Originally, the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by the Congress. However, starting with Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925), the Supreme Court has held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the First Amendment to each state, including any local government.
Apparently the First Amendment does not apply to POTUS
It’s really Keyword driven. For example, a search for ‘Sea Ice News’ has 3 WUWT results in the top 4. Titles win, with 1st paragraph keywords driving content to the top.
As much as I am loathe to admit it, lazy teenager is largely correct. Everyone’s searches are skewed by their own history of what sort of result they choose to click on when searching. If you are a skeptic and routinely choose skeptic sites from the results then skeptic sites show up higher. Likewise for alarmists I’ll bet, although I wouldn’t know — I no longer have the patience to endure such idiocy. Confirmation bias is rampant in our society and I am as guilty of it as anyone on “the other side”. I would not be surprised to discover that google is acting like just about every other marketing scam out there and messing with the results for various reasons. That sort of commercial/idealogical gerrymandering goes on everywhere these days — especially in media — and It won’t be going away anytime soon.
It is a strange and increasingly difficult game that we all have to play in separating the wheat from the chaff in our daily lives. It was Benjamin Franklin who once said: “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.” In this case that should read; people willing to trade their freedom for the sake of convenience deserve neither and will lose both. But that is the insidious nature of the mass-marketing society we live in. Most of our neighbors will choose to take the easy way out and that is the weapon of choice being used by those who seek to destroy capitalism — and by extension, freedom — the same folks that are driving the global warming agenda. But I will +1 whenever I get the chance. Just another task to add to an ever increasing list of things to do in this endless battle for my chosen way of life.
I suggest reading http://www.google.com/competition/howgooglesearchworks.html for explanations of how Google works. Read between the lines if you want. Read more if you want.
I use Google as an internal search engine for my website, I use the Google Toolbar to asses how popular is a Web page. I link to pages that I find relevant to the matter discussed.
Google is supposed to count the links it finds in the Web and rank them according the popularity of the linking page (the links origin). The number of links into a page determine its Google Rank.
Google knows honesty is the best way to succeed (I hope).
I don’t use Google Adds and still don’t know about using +1 for my pages.
There is no place to click “+1” to click on at the bottom of anything I look at on this site.
Am I missing something, or has google decided to start a conspiricy?
Dave says:
November 7, 2011 at 8:34 am
You likely have your security settings set very high, or are using NoScript, like me. I allow anything running on this site, but then again I don’t run windows for surfing the net so I don’t have to worry so much about malicious scripts. Perhaps you do? Regardless, if you want to participate — or even see the whole sordid business — you need to “lower your shields”.
Anthony
I’m afraid you are barking up the wrong tree on so many fronts with this. I am a professional SEO and online marekteer, so I know what rankings are about.
For a start you are looking at Alexa rank data, which is linked to the Alexa toolbar and has nothing to do with Google.
Secondly, its about keywords, relevance and trust. So for example, if I search for “arctic sea ice news”, I get NSIDC top of the SERP, and then your sea ice page second. So WUWT does rank as a trusted authority page for specific search terms.
Thirdly, no matter what you do on page, more than 60% of what ranks you is LINKS. If you want to rank for “global warming” you need about a gazillion inbound links containing that term or a linked term within the links anchort text. I bet most links to WUWT are “WUWT” or similar, so again you perhaps do not build page relevance from incoming links.
Lastly, Google +1 is a voting button for Google circles. It has nothing to do with their organic search results. It is their attempt at facebook “likes”, or Stumblepon stumbles, or diggs. Clicking on +1 will NOT effect your organic SERP positions.
If people want to get WUWT ranking for general terms such as “global warming scepticism” then you need to link to WUWT from your blogs and sites using the link anchor text “global warming scepticism” or something similar. Its no surprise that another “authority” site, skeptical science, ranks one for that search term, as the word is in the site title (in variation) and they have specific pages addressing the topic which contain the term, and you can bet the people linking to it are linking using terms like “read how to anwser a global warming sceptic” which builds page relevance.
Cheers.
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ferd berple says:
November 7, 2011 at 8:08 am
http://climaterealists.com/?id=8588
Posted by Joe Olson (forum) on Nov 2nd 2011, 11:41 AM EDT
In May of 2010 America’s fearless leader held a two hour emergency meeting with the CEO of Google…topic controlling the blogosphere. Turns out the the SERFS of the world were getting information that was “beyond their need to know” and access must be restricted. Then Barry stepped into the Rose Garden and the teleprompter said….
“Too much information is DANGEROUS for our democracy”….[google this phrase]….
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WOW, Google returns the ABSOLUTELY HUGE number of wait for it…. five
Seems censorship is alive and well in the USA.
Thanks for the tip Ferd.
I see no “+1” anywhere so I assume I need to sign up for something Googly. Sorry, but no. I try to avoid as much as possible all things Google.
I don’t think searching for “global warming” is a good test case for trying to find WUWT.
Also, if WUWT is not making use of tags and other standard marketing tricks that sites use to get higher rankings, then it only stands to reason that WUWT would be lower than some other sites. There are companies/consultants whose whole business is helping websites get higher rankings — there are lots of tricks of the trade and it has nothing to do with battling back against a conspiracy.
Is there any documented evidence that Google is downrating sites that don’t tow the CAGW line, or is it just suspicion? I would think documented evidence would be quite a story.
I;m conflicted. I have a niece who took our advice and joined google several years back, after graduating from The Farm. Still with them, doing well. Yet I also like the evil empire called EXXON enough to trust a large part of my retirement to their stock and so I do get paid by Big Oil in the form of rather miserly dividends from time to time.
Recently, I had to buy a new computer after the last one fell into the ocean, strictly my fault. The new one wanted to load Bing, so now I use Bing not by choice but by convienence,
My old college roommate has a daughter who works for GISS, spending time in Greenland and Antarctica most recently.
Yet I remain steadfastly skeptical regarding weather and climate, freezing in Nevada through a non-global warming nine month winter last year.
I am reminded of the famous Jack Nicholson line in A Few Good Men paraphrasing:
They can’t handle the truth!
If you use ghostery [everybody should IMO] you need to allow the following:
Google +1 <- gets the button after you join google+
Google AJAX Search API
Google Analytics
Google FriendConnect
Google Website Optimizer
Google Widgets
Wordpress Stats <- be nice Anthony.
Cheers.
I joined Google+ just to +1 your posts!
However I refuse to give them my real name (simply put – I don’t trust them), so I made one up based on my web moniker “wermet”. Say hello to W Ermet! 🙂 I also established a new email address for myself so they wouldn’t have that either.
So, to all those who don’t want to give Google their personal info, this is how it’s done.
Enjoy,
W Ermet (aka. wermet)
long time reader, first time to respond, just di a search for solar warming on google and wuwt came up on first search page at #9 ( see nasa’s november solar prediction). great website by the way, joe
In all honesty the way Wattsupwiththat is treated by google is symptomatic of how google is no longer a search engine. It is an organization with far too much control and it is now run by humans with agendas rather than being truly algorithmic.
I use ixquick. They don’t store your ID info:
https://www.ixquick.com/
WUWT is a blog – a popular blog but still a blog. If you Google “climate change” it is unlikely that you would get WUWT in the first few hits because other sites (Wikipedia, major news outlets, government agencies) have more links to their pages on other sites than WUWT does.
If, however, you Google “climate change” but select “blogs” from the sidebar then WUWT will appear in the first few hits.
Not an evil conspiracy – just use common sense.