> But Google's overall politics happen to be the same as my politics, so Santorum gets unequal access to the 2012 Internet.
I doubt if Google are manipulating their search engine results based on a dislike of Santorum; do you have any evidence otherwise?
> Savage's prank actually discredits the Internet. Surely nobody's mind is going to be changed by that disgusting link. Instead, it just serves to associate Internet content with the culture wars.
The internet contains the totality of the uhman experience, so it is associated with the culture wars (and with everything else humans do).
> Google should penalize the shit out of it.
It should be up to Google how they run their website, provided they doing do anythning dishonest.
They tweak a myriad of other ranking anomalies, sometimes for PR, sometimes to combat spam. They choose not to tweak this one, every though the ranking comes from a deliberate and artificial boost in link quality.
I wouldn't want Google to attempt to squelch the culture wars, but I would hope that Google wouldn't allow themselves to become a part of the culture wars.
I doubt if Google are manipulating their search engine results based on a dislike of Santorum; do you have any evidence otherwise?
> Savage's prank actually discredits the Internet. Surely nobody's mind is going to be changed by that disgusting link. Instead, it just serves to associate Internet content with the culture wars.
The internet contains the totality of the uhman experience, so it is associated with the culture wars (and with everything else humans do).
> Google should penalize the shit out of it.
It should be up to Google how they run their website, provided they doing do anythning dishonest.