So much for Google searches being unbiased!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331106,00.html

Google is a private company, they can do whatever they want.

Actually Google is a publicly traded company (goog, as of 10:30 AM today $516.61/share).

But that isn't the point I was trying to make.

When you go to a search engine I would expect it just to search for my request and not specifically exclude some sites.

It looks to me like they decided to 86 the guy because the legitimicy of his site was in question and that he didn't meet the requirements to be listed as a "news source" via Google News.

Google has deleted certain things from its Google Earth that might compromise national security e.g. part of the strategic oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico, I believe. Google is far from a "free" information source.

Andrew

a) Bill doesn't seem to understand the difference between Google and Google News (nor the meaning of "unbiased")

b) "A Google representative answered that Inner City Press would be restored to the Google News service as usual, but that the process might take "a couple weeks," according to Lee. Still, from Feb. 13 on, Inner City Press stories stopped showing up on Google News, something Google attributes to a technical error."

c) "Though his writing is clunky, his methods unorthodox (and often highly annoying) and his news judgment sometimes more than a little off the mark" sounds like the real reason for delisting.

Nwokie--

Google is a private company, they can do what they want.
Malls are private businesses, they can do what they want.
Clear Channel is a private business, it can do what it wants.......

Somebody please give the jukebox a kick, I think the needle is stuck............

Actually Google is a publicly traded company (goog, as of 10:30 AM today $516.61/share).

This is why I wake up smiling everyday!

No malls are considered places of public accomodation, and are subject to the civil rights act.

Clear Channel is subject to FCC rules.

...and how to solve the problem?

That is what this is all about.

If we think the mall is within it's rights, this isn't a bad call really.

If not, there have got to be some solutions that make sense on the table; otherwise, this is a case where the law is gonna get tested and some value judgments made.

Good old Google.

Do you Yahoo?

They both just ooze democracy.