{"id":2138,"date":"2006-01-27T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2006-01-27T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T11:00:21","slug":"zawodny_has_goo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"Zawodny: Has Google Lost its Soul?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremy.zawodny.com\/blog\/archives\/006191.html\">Yahoo&#8217;s Jeremy Zawodny<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>We all knew it was a matter of &#8220;when&#8221; not &#8220;if&#8221;, but it&#8217;s surprising to see that it had to happen this way. Over on Google Blogscoped, I see that Google Removes Its Help Entry on Censorship: The page which used to say: Google does not censor results for any search term. The order and content of our results are completely automated; we do not manipulate our search results by hand. We believe strongly in allowing the democracy of the web to determine the inclusion and ranking of sites in our search results.<\/p>\n<p>Now simply 404s. It&#8217;s gone. Well, except for the cached copy in Google itself.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?answer=17795&amp;topic=368\">that page<\/a> to explain how and why they&#8217;ve compromised their corporate philosophy in China, they&#8217;ve removed it entirely with no e<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>   Read the comments for a rather troubling look at Google&#8217;s censorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo&#8217;s Jeremy Zawodny: We all knew it was a matter of &#8220;when&#8221; not &#8220;if&#8221;, but it&#8217;s surprising to see that it had to happen this way. Over on Google Blogscoped, I see that Google Removes Its Help Entry on Censorship: The page which used to say: Google does not censor results for any search term. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}