{"id":5509,"date":"2010-05-23T16:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T20:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2010-05-23T20:07:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T00:07:53","slug":"search-engine-self-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/search-engine-self-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine Self-Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/23\/technology\/23goog.html\" target=\"_blank\">interesting article in today&#8217;s New York Times<\/a> about a large search-engine company whose name is just two letters away from the word &#8220;poodle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5510\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.akc.org\/breeds\/poodle\/index.cfm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5510\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5510\" title=\"poodle\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/poodle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poodle image courtesy of American Kennel Club.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read the article. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say because I learned my lesson. I complained about my &#8220;poodle&#8221; search results in blog posts published on <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/google-hates-wendy-brandes\/\" target=\"_blank\">January 6, 2008<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/google-loves-wendy-brandes\/\" target=\"_blank\">January 15, 2008<\/a> &#8230; and on <a href=\"http:\/\/wendyhatesblogger.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/hi-my-peeps.html\" target=\"_blank\">January 17, 2008<\/a>, my blog was accused of being spam and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/unfrozen-caveman-blogger-back-on-display\/\" target=\"_blank\">shut down for 12 days<\/a>. Coincidence? Only &#8220;poodle&#8221; knows for sure. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article in today&#8217;s New York Times about a large search-engine company whose name is just two letters away from the word &#8220;poodle.&#8221; Read the article. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say because I learned my lesson. I complained about my &#8220;poodle&#8221; search results in blog posts published on January 6, 2008, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/search-engine-self-censorship\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104,49],"tags":[492],"class_list":{"0":"post-5509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-evil-empire","8":"category-in-the-news","9":"tag-google","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5513,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions\/5513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}