Please read everything before you respond, and don't get off track.I asked this question already once before but it seems as if some people did not understand my question. I am a college student and I am always researching subjects on the internet, lately I have noticed large amounts of information disappearing. What do I mean by that, Lets say for example I was researching apples, and I was using google search engine to find the topic "apples with worms frozen" and about thirty two web sites and six hundred hits came back, Then one day I went back to check up on any updates their might be and they were all removed, Like the subject never even existed. Now I am just using this as an example and I am not researching apples but I have definitely seen this happen a number of times in many different fields. So my question to you is what do you make of this, any ideas about what might be going on that would cause this kind of activity?
2007-03-21 04:48:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Lots of people are all ready getting off track, remember their are thirty two different web sites, none of them related to one another at all, with six hundred results, then all at one time no results. Don't tell me that all thirty two web sites were shut down or removed all at the same time, this is too great of an outlier as we would put it in statistics class.
2007-03-21 04:49:18 · update #1
As for all the information provided, yes I know how web sites work and I know how domain name registrations work, I have had web sites in the past, do not assume that I am ignorant about how the internet works, my G.P.A. is 3.8 so I'm competent of understanding logic, thank you.
2007-03-21 04:49:40 · update #2
To sgoldperson.
I use a private internet connection, so their is no filter as I do not filter my own results.
It is all search engines that I have used so far.
As far as The sites being removed from the internet or just the search engines, I don't know but I have thought about that an I am looking into it.
I would still consider it censorship even if the sites are only being removed from the search engines, most all of a web sites traffic comes from search engines, so to censor them is to censor the net.
2007-03-23 10:26:19 · update #3
Is this all search Engines, or just Google. Maybe Google is the one censoring? Seriously yeah I think the web in general gets censored though. I don't really trust things with Search Engines in general though, I find a good site I bookmark(or would write it down if it was a public computer) so that I would have it when I wanted it. I mean are the site disappearing, or they just being taken off the results?
2007-03-21 05:04:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The internet is not censored in most parts of the world. China has some censorship, and I am sure some other countries have similar practices.
Odds are, the search engine you were using, either dumped some of its cache or the owner of the site requested removal. It is also possible that the content was protected by copyright, and a request was made to the searh engine or website owners to remove the protected content.
2007-03-21 04:54:46 · answer #2 · answered by Amanda H 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The gov't has no good or reason to censor the internet. individual companies can police their very own boards and servers for issues they are in warfare of words with. mothers and dads can shop their childrens from vacationing offensive cloth. not something greater is mandatory-at this factor all of it comes right down to private accountability, we dont choose the gov't taking that away in any further aspects.
2016-12-19 10:43:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Internet is not at all censored.As far as your Google search query is concerned,the results are just found out from any of the matching documents in Google's servers.The search result which is clicked more times automatically gets a higher position in results for that query.As new documents are added into the database,the confusion is created in the search results too,with some irrelevant coming up.But,more clicks ensure the right one to be placed at top.
2007-03-21 04:57:22 · answer #4 · answered by Desperate4YAnswers 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Dude i wouldn't worry about it.. but if you are using internet from school then of course its being censored. Or it could be your firewall settings.
2007-03-21 04:54:48 · answer #5 · answered by Firas 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The activity is a recatigorization/reindexing of google index data.
2007-03-21 04:52:58 · answer #6 · answered by Latte 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋