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intaglio

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10. Sorry, my error but did get some results this way

Reply to marble falls (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 24, 2014, 01:54 AM

Jun 2014

using site searches
white on black violence site:www.salon.com
white on black violence site:www.alternet.org
"white on black" violence site:thinkprogress.org

Nothing on Talking Points Memo or Huffpo or al Jazeera
a few results for BBC news (bbc.co.uk) and Slate
Only one for the US Department of Justice
Nothing from FedStats

It really looks like this problem has hardly been examined and that seems like, well, institutional racism

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What the hell is wrong with search engines? [View all] marble falls Jun 2014 OP

White on black attacks philosslayer Jun 2014 #1

They get reported but they don't get searched. Its like the "Santorum" search joke but in reverse... marble falls Jun 2014 #2

Use inverted commas and minus signs intaglio Jun 2014 #3

And they're still about black on white violence, the Salon article takes you to RW blogs ..... marble falls Jun 2014 #5

Sorry, my error but did get some results this way intaglio Jun 2014 #10

It means that bigots are doing most of the searches, that's what it means Warpy Jun 2014 #4

That's exctly right. And the result is it dumbs us all down along with them. Only BS results on .... marble falls Jun 2014 #7

tried it, seems the OP's contention is in fact true. shocking eh? nt msongs Jun 2014 #6

It has to do partly with how many pages are linking to them. NYC Liberal Jun 2014 #8

Use "DoNotLink.com" then, to link to crank sites, without upping cranks' search rankings. alp227 Jun 2014 #9

Read this conwebwatch article by Terry Krepel to see how WND/such media have hyped alp227 Jun 2014 #11