Google shenanigans: RNC bias!

Jul 03, 2008 08:49

On June 24th, I visited google in search for the homepage for the Democratic National Convention. My cousin is coming in from out of town and needed a place to stay while she volunteered the thing, and so I needed to know what kinda time frame we were talking about, and whether it conflicted with Dragon*Con.

What I saw kinda bothered me:


Yes, that's right, the sponsored link for the DNC search was the Republican National Convention home page.

Bewildered, I did a search for "republican national convention", to see if maybe there's a switcheroo. Behold:


Are the R's so desperate that they have to advertise their convention page on D searches? Sheesh! This deserves an

Today, the RNC search looks basically the same, but the DNC search has no sponsored link at all:

google, politics

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