Life: September 2004 Archives

I read a fascinating article over at Ars Technica today, about how Google news appears returning bias results when you search for "John Kerry", as opposed to when you just search for "Kerry". The crux of the issue are all of these right-wing websites that Google indexes, which have no problem writing John Kerry's name everywhere, as they blast him to pieces. What is truly disheartening about this isn't that Google sucks, but rather the nature of these so-called conservative websites. I read a few of them, most notably "useless-knowledge.com". I don't know what amazes me more: that a small group of people are willing to write utter bullshit about a political rival so that their guy can get elected, or that a slightly larger group of people actually believe this stuff.

At least I can be thankful that the average voter is an idiot (thanks Tex), so they probably don't read any of this crap...

No, wait, that's really not good at all.... :( I just want this election to be over, so that I can go back to not caring.

-Andy.