The Google Controversy
In early March 2006 it was noticed by The People’s Cube that Google erased/blocked any link to TPC site in its database. The People’s Cube suspected it was a deliberate move by Google because of TPC’s criticism of Censorship by Google in China, and also TPC’s political views. Based on another known case of Google blocking individual political site pages. TPC then wrote letters to Google asking for an explanation, to which there was no immediate reply.
Once The People’s Cube posted the topic of the Google removal it spread quickly through the Blogosphere. Including a post by Google employee Matt Cutts on his blog. Where he made the argument that TPC removal had to do with spam in the form of hidden text.
Google eventually restored TPC to their database and in a written response to TPC stated “While we cannot comment on the individual reasons your page was removed, we'd like to assure you that we do not alter our search results based on political viewpoint or ideology”.
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