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Update: Top Google News Search result for “marc dann” altered


Ah. The Internet. Yesterday’s top return:

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Today’s top return:

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:53 pm May 9th, 2008 in Gender, Government, Marc Dann, Ohio, Politics, Scandal, Women 

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4 Responses to “Update: Top Google News Search result for “marc dann” altered”

  1. 1 Roman on May 9th, 2008 9:38 pm

    Jill –

    I wouldn’t say the results have been altered. Google adjust its search algorithm regularly based on many things. It’s just a technology thing not a political thing.

  2. 2 Joseph on May 10th, 2008 12:54 am

    I just checked again…

    NaugBlog comes up 6th.
    Plunderbund 16th.

  3. 3 Daniel Jack Williamson on May 10th, 2008 8:14 am

    I think it IS a political thing. Algorithms, sure, but the AG’s office had the power to remove the subheadings without a conscious effort on Google’s part. Note that the algorithms change the ranking of pages, but the top page in both instances is the same: the official page of the Ohio Attorney General. Therefore, the change is not one wrought by an algorithm.

    And if the AG’s office is busy at work redacting how the official AG page looks on a Google search, you can bet that they are toiling away at altering records WITHIN the office to scrub it of evidence. All the more reason to pry Dann out of office now via impeachment. Let’s get him out before they finish their purge so we have a chance of finding some evidence left behind.

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on May 11th, 2008 8:05 pm

    I’m pretty certain that the current result is the result of someone altering the content available for Google to display at that level. However, the governor, secretary of state and auditor offices have the same display of hyperlinks like the earlier result had, but the treasurer’s office doesn’t.

    Maybe one of my SEO friends will help me figure it out. Regardless, less irony is a good thing right now.

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